Many thousands of people have bought the last two sets of books we produced. They were to a much higher quality standard than 99% of self-published books available.
Yes, part of my motive is for lots of people who haven’t read these posts to have them in a beautifully designed physical format and finally get around to reading them. I would guess that there are less than 100 people who have read every essay in each of the books (before the books were published), so I think most people who bought them got new content.
I have no-doubt at all that the books are of a much higher quality than most self-published material. And the thousands of sales of the last two books is impressive! My point was that someone who had never heard of lesswrong before was unlikely to purchase a book “cold”—which is what I had read as your intention. But from the reply your goal is instead to connect people already in the know with more good stuff faster, which a book probably achieves well. (In addition to the “books are just really nice things” angle.)
Many thousands of people have bought the last two sets of books we produced. They were to a much higher quality standard than 99% of self-published books available.
Yes, part of my motive is for lots of people who haven’t read these posts to have them in a beautifully designed physical format and finally get around to reading them. I would guess that there are less than 100 people who have read every essay in each of the books (before the books were published), so I think most people who bought them got new content.
I have no-doubt at all that the books are of a much higher quality than most self-published material. And the thousands of sales of the last two books is impressive! My point was that someone who had never heard of lesswrong before was unlikely to purchase a book “cold”—which is what I had read as your intention. But from the reply your goal is instead to connect people already in the know with more good stuff faster, which a book probably achieves well. (In addition to the “books are just really nice things” angle.)
You don’t need to have brought a book to read it. It can also be gifted.