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Sorry, encouraged by your excellent suggestions on the subtitle (I still have to reply to everyone), I'm asking for another piece of help: to be available in bookstores in October, the book must be submitted to the sales network by May. To this noble goal, a short text is needed explaining to the network (which I imagine is PD-centric, but venal) why they should display the book in their bookstores. The main reason remains that if they did, they would sell it, because this book was incredibly significant for one of the first, most significant, and largest digital (and analog) communities: you!

Let's remember that the first time the book was sold, it wasn't just those who didn't recommend it! The first printing sold out before the book was available on Amazon (and topped the general bestseller list for weeks), but the publisher didn't print it! The new publisher seems aware of this, and technology has since advanced, but the internet may not be as astute, because the story of this book, like that of all truly inconvenient books, has never been told by the media (those who promoted the general, to be clear)…

It would be 1250 characters, negotiable up to 1300.

Who wants to try?

The real challenge is to convey the measure and meaning of a unique experience, to avoid catching editorial staff by surprise for the second time…


This is a machine translation of a post (in Italian) written by Alberto Bagnai and published on Goofynomics at the URL https://goofynomics.blogspot.com/2026/05/cedola.html on Sat, 02 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000. Some rights reserved under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license.