A ‘Special Treat’ for Paid Subscribers

During the next few years, I plan to offer all of the books I’ve written as a free pdf download, just like we did with “The Anarchist’s Workbench.”

Here’s how my mind works: I am happy to give away every bit of knowledge in my head. Freely, and to anybody. But when we spend $25,000 to $50,000 to put that knowledge into a hardbound book designed to last a century, that is something I am happy to sell to others.

This week we finished up the revised edition of “The Stick Chair Book,” and the book is now working its way through the pre-press process. Though the revised edition is 10 percent shorter than the first edition, printing costs have gone up.

The paper plant that supplied the #70 paper for the book’s interior crashed and now makes only low-quality groundwood paper (basically newsprint). I’m not happy with the other papers offered as a replacement. They are too blue, plus the blacks in the photos on these papers look muddy.

So here was the choice: Keep the price the same and reduce the…