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February 16, 2010
For sustainability champions: my book is now in Dutch, French, Italian, Portuguese and Polish.
Rule one in book publishing (where I worked for ten years) is: promote your own book, because nobody else will do so with as much energy and commitment. So, sorry to be brash, but please note the following:
Today I received printed copies from its publisher, SUN, of Plan B - the Dutch version of my book In The Bubble; (the latter was published by MIT Press in 2005).
For the Dutch and all the other language versions mentioned here, I reduced the original text to 45,000 words - but also added five new chapters. on: Sustainability; Metrics; Food; Development; and Telepresence.
Here are three ways you can help Plan B reach sustainability champions:
a) send the name and co-ordinates of Dutch-speaking journalists, bloggers and thought-leaders (to whom you think we should send a free review copy) to Marlies Dijkstra; her address is m.dijkstra at uitgeverijsun dot nl
b) go to the SUN website and order copies for all your Dutch-speaking friends in The Netherlands and around the world. If you are a sustainability champion within your company, university, city, or government department, consider ordering 100 or more copies for a discount, and send copies to your colleagues;
c) announce on appropriate mailing lists that the book is available
Here again is the French edition translated by Anne Despond-Barre and published by Marc Partouche for Cite du Design Editions.
Next is the Italian edition translated by Niels Betori and published by Pier Paolo Peruccio for Allemandi.
Here, below, is the Portuguese language edition published in Brazil by Marcelo Melo at Virgilia and available from Saraiva.
And in May the book will be published in Polish by Wydawnictwo SWPS Academica.
Posted by John Thackara at February 16, 2010 09:07 AM
Comments
The cover of the French edition is lovely. But where can we get ahold of those 3 new chapters in English?
Andrew: I'll post them here as soon as I've cleared things with MIT Press. John
Posted by: Andrew at December 19, 2008 04:49 PM
Hello
Just for the record, the French version is actually published by Saint-Etienne University Press -Publications de l'université de Saint-Etienne (PUSE)- and Cité du design éditions.
Best regards
Anne
Posted by: Béchard-Léauté Anne at February 4, 2009 10:51 AM
FINALLY IN THE BUBBLE IN ITALIAN! IT'S TWO YEARS I'M LOOKING FOR IT! READ IT IN ENGLISH, BUT MOTHERTONGUE IS ALWAYS BETTER. BEAUTYFULL LAYOUT DESIGN OF THE FRENCH VERSION!... IN CONTRARY TO THE ITALIAN ONE... STILL HAPPY!
Posted by: YOLDA at February 4, 2009 09:46 PM
Hello John
There's available an spanish version?! Can I do something to help you to these aim?! The spanish readers sure will appreciate it.
thanks again for the open-knowledge!
Posted by: adrià gm at May 5, 2010 12:08 PM
