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Breaking China
Dr. Weinberger is back from China. I don't think they show that show over there. If it's true (about the book spotting), Perseus Books should get credit, even if unearned, for excellent product placement. Also a huge (earned) hand for the most recognizeable book cover since Mao's little red number. Anyway, he writes about China in the latest JOHO. A sample:
I love "buy or bye." It's about time BOB served as an acronym for something bad. Speaking of Mao, there's this review from Amazon's page on the Chairman's sayings (oddly without a cover shot when a red rectangle would do):
The book, once forced reading in the world's most populous country, ranks #45,229 in the Amazon Top X Million. Cluetrain is #78. Both average four stars. But Mao's gets 12 reviews while we get 84. Including, I just noticed, two brand-new ones that both give us five stars. The latest, from Timothy Cunningham of Philadelphia, pretty much nails it:
This book demonstrates how the Internet is bringing people back into the commercial process. By the way, it's been almost five months since I re-affliated my on-line bookstore from Amazon to Wordsworth. Sad to report that sales so far have been zero. Not a one. Prior to that, the store brought in about $20 per month. Not much, but it bought a few double tall wet cappucinos at the local Peets. I just checked, and between April 1 and June 20, $493.18 in books were sold off my affiliate link-ins (all of which were here, as far as I know). That brings me $24.67 so far in this quarter. In the previous quarter, I sold $990.25 in books, for a referral kickback of $79.16. I would link more to Wordsworth, but there's nothing at the Cluetrain page besides the book itself. Not sure where I'm going to go with this, but that's a look at a little data, anyway. Amen, sister A good friend's last two emails contained this... Just saw your mention of C. Love's speech - I too was quite impressed - I sent it to a few select execs with this bilious remark: ... and this... Take a sample of workers who for whatever reason care about the product they are making, and another sample of unproductive hosers whose primary value is sucking lawn furniture, new wallpaper and bar tabs out of the corporate mammaries. Which group is more likely to sacrifice every form of craftsmanlike value - customer satisfaction, product quality, talent and the tantalizing efficiencies of a distributed workforce - to the primary directive of amplifying the labial interface?
And will that civilization have record companies? Here's what one of the top record producers of all time wrote in his (somewhat pseudonymous)Cluetrain sign-up: It's about time we try to get to a civilization that's
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I know that because he reported (possibly) spotting a Cluetrain book in the hands of an actor walking through the set of 
