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Because Internet is out in paperback TOMORROW (for ordering-via-the-internet purposes, that's practically today)
Same bright yellow cover, now with 10x more nice quotes from people
Get it for anyone you communicate with online: http://gretchenmcculloch.com/book
Same bright yellow cover, now with 10x more nice quotes from people
Get it for anyone you communicate with online: http://gretchenmcculloch.com/book
Hmm, I'm not sure how legible that second page of quotes is, here's a better angle
(Also you can read them in actual text if you click through to any bookselling venue's page)
(Also you can read them in actual text if you click through to any bookselling venue's page)
Ah, thank you!! The emoji chapter was a ton of work to typeset, I appreciate your contribution there! https://twitter.com/CharlieEdmunds/status/1285280240592392192
Fun story, before Because Internet came out, I asked David Crystal if he'd consider blurbing it, and then a few weeks later he sends back some very nice official words and then also a personal note: "I'm impressed at how you managed to display all those emoji"
Alright, who wants a guided tour through different editions of Because Internet, because my publishers @riverheadbooks and @HarvillSecker send me new Becauses Internet whenever a new edition comes out?
Alright, we begin with the @riverheadbooks editions of Because Internet!
Left to right, that's:
- advance uncorrected proofs! (aka ARC, sent to some media folks to write reviews)
- first edition!! (hardback)
- hardback with the new bestseller banner!
- paperback (out tomorrow!)
Left to right, that's:
- advance uncorrected proofs! (aka ARC, sent to some media folks to write reviews)
- first edition!! (hardback)
- hardback with the new bestseller banner!
- paperback (out tomorrow!)
Now the UK editions of Because Internet!
Notice the slightly different subtitle for the UK edition, that's how you can tell which one you've got if you're in a country that's not the US or UK!
Left: hardcover from @HarvillSecker
Right: paperback from @vintagebooks
Notice the slightly different subtitle for the UK edition, that's how you can tell which one you've got if you're in a country that's not the US or UK!
Left: hardcover from @HarvillSecker
Right: paperback from @vintagebooks
is it too late to reissue a special commonwealth edition with this title
asking for a
https://twitter.com/ecormany/status/1285288975343779840
asking for a
https://twitter.com/ecormany/status/1285288975343779840
Apparently Americans prefer to buy language books about rules and British people prefer to buy language books about history?
I am not sure how much this is Actual People versus Received Wisdom, but if it makes a few more people pick it up, sure, fine? https://twitter.com/phirephoenix/status/1285289142193131521
I am not sure how much this is Actual People versus Received Wisdom, but if it makes a few more people pick it up, sure, fine? https://twitter.com/phirephoenix/status/1285289142193131521
So, six Becauses Internet, that's enough, right?
Not so fast my friends!
Please also appreciate the special leather-bound edition that @riverheadbooks had made for Only Me
https://twitter.com/GretchenAMcC/status/1204469658558046208
Not so fast my friends!
Please also appreciate the special leather-bound edition that @riverheadbooks had made for Only Me
https://twitter.com/GretchenAMcC/status/1204469658558046208
I mean, you know yourself better than I do haha
I was just pleased they kept the iconic yellow + blue highlighting cover concept, sometimes books get whole new covers for UK editions and I can't think of anything I could have liked better! https://twitter.com/v21/status/1285291073925976064
I was just pleased they kept the iconic yellow + blue highlighting cover concept, sometimes books get whole new covers for UK editions and I can't think of anything I could have liked better! https://twitter.com/v21/status/1285291073925976064
Here's a whole lineup of Becauses Internet so you can see the slight differences in size!
Well played, everyone https://twitter.com/dotLocutus/status/1285293640563044353
There's also an audiobook version of Because Internet, for which the cover is square!
You can hear an excerpt of me reading the audiobook here: https://twitter.com/PRHAudio/status/1164610827690958849
You can hear an excerpt of me reading the audiobook here: https://twitter.com/PRHAudio/status/1164610827690958849
There ISN'T a separate UK edition of the Because Internet audiobook in which I read the entire thing in a fake British accent
But there IS this tiny fake excerpt version for which I donned my best RP voice https://twitter.com/GretchenAMcC/status/1179541692996898816
But there IS this tiny fake excerpt version for which I donned my best RP voice https://twitter.com/GretchenAMcC/status/1179541692996898816
positively maaaaaavelous, old chap https://twitter.com/KTamas/status/1285298686029946881
old cover photo / new cover photo (feat. @jonnysun!!!)
will I just keep thanking @jonnysun for making the kind of interesting internet language that CALLED OUT to me to analyze it and also for saying such nice things about my writing when I was DEEP in the stage of "is this even interesting or relevant to anyone"
YES TO BOTH
YES TO BOTH
I read the audiobook myself (was I really going to trust someone else to convey the nuances of typographical tone of voice out loud? I mean, I would have had to conduct AUDITIONS) and it is extremely delightful to hear that people enjoyed it! https://twitter.com/EmmaSManning/status/1285306117791404032
the Because Internet audiobook is sorta like a 9-hour-long @lingthusiasm episode, except there's no @superlinguo
should we make a bonus reaction track of @superlinguo going "mhmm" "yes" "i see" so you can play both at the same time and make it feel more lingthusiastic?
should we make a bonus reaction track of @superlinguo going "mhmm" "yes" "i see" so you can play both at the same time and make it feel more lingthusiastic?
so it is spoken https://twitter.com/superlinguo/status/1285335049009680384
Oooh, I forgot to take a photo of all of the backs of the various Becauses Internet!
They're far more different from each other, look at what the various editions thought would convince people to crack open the book!
(L to R, oldest to newest)
http://gretchenmcculloch.com/book
They're far more different from each other, look at what the various editions thought would convince people to crack open the book!
(L to R, oldest to newest)
http://gretchenmcculloch.com/book
Btw, if anyone manages to spot the paperback of Because Internet in a bookstore, please send me a picture, I don't know when I'll be in a bookstore next
(Though I know @ArgoBookshop has copies, as they brought some outside for me to sign! #SocialDistancingAuthor)
(Though I know @ArgoBookshop has copies, as they brought some outside for me to sign! #SocialDistancingAuthor)
Technically there's even also an ebook edition, making eight!
But it's hard to get physical copies of those, naturally!
(And thanks!!) https://twitter.com/ianbarley24/status/1285298641331200007
But it's hard to get physical copies of those, naturally!
(And thanks!!) https://twitter.com/ianbarley24/status/1285298641331200007
