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Hey everybody, just wanted to let you all know that a self-published, print-on-demand version of The Downward Spiral is now available through Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26x%3D13%26ref%255F%3Dnb%255Fss%255Fgw%26y%3D14%26field-keywords%3DThe%20Downward%20Spiral%20(A%20Requiem%20for%20the%20American%20Dream):%20The%20Internet%20Writings%20of%20William%20Hicks%26url%3Dsearch-alias%253Daps&tag=hubbertsarmso-20

Hopefully, if you click through this link, HA will get an Amazon credit (not sure how that works).  Jock, please feel free to do whatever it takes to adjust if more is needed.   


The description of the book from my blog is below:

Thanks to the miracle of modern self publishing and print on demand, The Downward Spiral is now available in book form. As a frustrated mystery novelist, it was always my dream to have my own book published, though I never imagined it would happen in quite this way.

The format for the book is really quite simple. I took about 200 of the best posts from TDS for 2011, put them all into a manuscript and divided them into ten chapters by subject matter with a short introduction. The book also includes my highly popular Top 10 End of the World novels list and ends with the original eponymous short story that inspired the blog.

I really have no idea if anyone out there is willing to buy such a book. Some would say that taking information that I have provided for free online and putting it up for sale in dead tree form shows how out of touch I am with the way things are these days. But I'm not really looking to make a profit here. In fact, if I earn just enough money to recoup my very modest costs for this project (and perhaps buy a case or two of good German beer) I'll be satisfied.

I've mentioned before that I refuse to turn on Google ads for this blog because of how the real Bill Hicks felt about marketing, and I don't ask for donations because I don't really need the money. But if you've enjoyed the blog and have wanted to show your appreciation, this is your chance. Heck, maybe you even know someone who is just waking up and for whom The Downward Spiral might make a great gift!

The price is set at $11.99 on Amazon, which leaves me about a $2 royalty per copy. For that you get 312 pages and about 95,000 words of TDS goodness. And the best part is, the copies of the book are printed right here in the good ol' USA (South Carolina, specifically), so I'm putting my money where my mouth is in terms of trying to support American jobs.

Anyway, if you are of a mindset, the book is available at the link below, or on the permanent link I've placed in the right column just below the page views counter. Once again, thank you for reading.

Way to go, Bill!!

Quote from: Bill Hicks on January 28, 2012, 03:43:11 PM

Hopefully, if you click through this link, HA will get an Amazon credit (not sure how that works).

I'm not sure the above link would be seen as HA-referred in the proper sense, so here's an alternative that should work:
[amazonsearch]The Downward Spiral (A Requiem for the American Dream): The Internet Writings of William Hicks[/amazonsearch]

To produce a "valid" link, one is supposed to enclose the search text (title, author, ISBN, whatever) in "amazonsearch" tags, which can also be achieved using the button (3rd from the right in 2nd row).

Thanks, Gromit!  I just redid the one above to match this one.   

I watched Bill the other day on YouTube. It was the marketers episode... My little girl sat on my lap and we had a nice cuddle watching it.

I'm not sure how much she understood, but it's an important part of her education.