I pre-ordered in mid May as soon as I heard about it, and since then it’s been months of nearly everyone on the Internet having already read it
Wait what? I don’t think almost anyone got to read it before it came out. My model is maybe a total of like 50 pre-order copies were sent out. Maybe 100? Definitely not anything close to “nearly everyone on the internet”.
This from June lists a lot of people who have read it, including Stephen Fry, Grimes, professors etc. Seperately on Twitter seemingly anyone who was someone in the scene had given their opinion after having read it.
Any thread from the first announcement onward had people saying they’ve read it already. From the same thread (and that was early on)
Many people (like >100 is my guess), with many different view points, have read the book and offered comments.
Note that IFP (a DC-based think tank) recently had someone deliver 535 copies of their new book to every US Congressional office.
More endorsements and there’s also a lot of twitter personalities that had mentioned reading it, which I wont hunt. It definitely felt like a lot more than 50. I’m not arguing it’s a bad or good strategy, just that it’s felt a bit off to wait for months for a ‘pre-order’ when anyone who I might see on Twitter and would’ve been interested to have read it already has.
Wait what? I don’t think almost anyone got to read it before it came out. My model is maybe a total of like 50 pre-order copies were sent out. Maybe 100? Definitely not anything close to “nearly everyone on the internet”.
This from June lists a lot of people who have read it, including Stephen Fry, Grimes, professors etc. Seperately on Twitter seemingly anyone who was someone in the scene had given their opinion after having read it.
Any thread from the first announcement onward had people saying they’ve read it already. From the same thread (and that was early on)
More endorsements and there’s also a lot of twitter personalities that had mentioned reading it, which I wont hunt. It definitely felt like a lot more than 50. I’m not arguing it’s a bad or good strategy, just that it’s felt a bit off to wait for months for a ‘pre-order’ when anyone who I might see on Twitter and would’ve been interested to have read it already has.
Almost no one I know who wasn’t working directly with MIRI on the book launch had read it, so it certainly didn’t feel that way for me!
Around 100 seems vaguely right to me (if you count people working on the launch), though this quote was still an update for me!