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Hacking the Earth

Hacking the Earth cover (final version)

Today my collection of essays about geoengineering, Hacking the Earth, goes on sale. It gathers together the major pieces I've written about geoengineering, here and at Worldchanging; I've edited most of them to bring the content up to date, eliminate the bloggier aspects ("such and such just appeared at this link"), and give it a bit more flow.

This is my "have to have a book in print" stake in the ground, at least for now. It's sometimes surprising how important a print publication still is in many knowledge and analysis fields. It doesn't matter if it's widely read, it just needs to exist.

This is also an experiment in publish-on-demand. Rather than go through a traditional publisher, I'm trying out Lulu.com. This gives me a bit more control over the content, and allows me to put something about on a subject that probably won't be generating a lot of mainstream attention for another couple of years.

If you decide to buy a copy, thank you. If not, thank you, too. I'm really curious about how well this model of book publishing works, in terms of both success and failure.

I don't think I have any more geoengineering items lined up right now. Therefore, I declare Terraformingstock over for now.

Comments

Have you considered putting out a Kindle edition as well? I know I can download from Lulu, but it'd be easier for me to grab from Amazon. And it'd be nice to have someone self-publish something worth reading on the device.

Thomas beat me to my intended comment. I'd also like to be able to grab it from Amazon for my Kindle.

It looks like a Kindle version will take some serious formatting work. I tried doing a straight conversion of PDF to Kindle -- using Amazon's own conversion service -- and the results aren't pretty.

I'll see what I can do, though. Now that I have a Kindle myself, I can make sure it works before making anything public.

Jamais,

Drop the MS into Word, then upload the .doc file: the Kindle formatter plays with that more nicely, but you'll have to modify your TOC to be simple, and small.

Off to buy a copy of your book!

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