{"id":3464,"date":"2014-05-29T13:23:40","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T11:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3464"},"modified":"2014-06-19T11:48:34","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T09:48:34","slug":"update-on-labourstart-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=3464","title":{"rendered":"Update on LabourStart books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/solidarity\">Dan Gallin book<\/a> is available on Amazon&#8217;s Canada site, but with a wait time of 3-5 weeks. \u00a0I&#8217;ve written to CreateSpace to raise this issue with them. \u00a0Meanwhile, I did a mailing to 12,000 Canadians today to tell them that they could order the book there &#8212; and also via Amazon Canada, on Kindle as well.<\/p>\n<p>Our next book, <em><strong>Global Crisis, Global Solidarity<\/strong><\/em>, is beginning to take shape. \u00a0We will be asking all those who made presentations at our conference in Berlin to submit their texts, then we&#8217;ll make a selection, edit them and publish. \u00a0My target is to get a book ready by the end of August.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve done <strong>an inventory of book sales<\/strong> since we began about 18 months ago. \u00a0We&#8217;ve sold <strong>2,799<\/strong> books so far. \u00a0Here are the totals for all, including Kindle sales:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Campaigning Online and Winning &#8211; 1,136<\/li>\n<li>The Global Labour Movement &#8211; 823<\/li>\n<li>Firefox OS for Activists &#8211; 390<\/li>\n<li>Solidarity &#8211; Dan Gallin &#8211; 276<\/li>\n<li>Campaigning &#8211; French &#8211; 97<\/li>\n<li>Global labour &#8211; French &#8211; 77<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dan Gallin book is available on Amazon&#8217;s Canada site, but with a wait time of 3-5 weeks. \u00a0I&#8217;ve written to CreateSpace to raise this issue with them. \u00a0Meanwhile, I did a mailing to 12,000 Canadians today to tell them that they could order the book there &#8212; and also via Amazon Canada, on Kindle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3464"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3469,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464\/revisions\/3469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}