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In 2011, I got a phone call from a number I didn’t recognize. “Hello?” “Derek. It’s Seth Godin.” “Wow! Hi Seth!” “I’m starting a n...
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Request to RentIn 2011, I got a phone call from a number I didn’t recognize. “Hello?” “Derek. It’s Seth Godin.” “Wow! Hi Seth!” “I’m starting a new publishing company, so I want you to write a book. Short, like a manifesto. Will you do it?” “Uh, sure!” “Great. I look forward to it.” “Thanks!” Over the next eleven days, I wrote the lessons I’d learned from starting, growing, and selling my company. He liked it, named it “Anything You Want”, and a few weeks later it was for sale. My first book. Simple as that. To me, it was no big deal - just telling my tale. But a lot of small business owners said my book helped them remember their purpose, and get re-excited about their business. Penguin bought Seth’s publishing company and re-released my book on Penguin Portfolio. But I wanted to self-publish. I want to own the rights to my books so I can do what I want with them: give them away, let people translate them, or sell them how I like. I’m thinking long-term. I’ve got many books to come, and I want them to be a matching set. So I bought back the rights from Penguin. I improved many chapters in “Anything You Want”, and added eight new chapters that were missing — points that people kept asking about over my last ten years of talking about this book — better explanations — better stories. Then I gave it a new cover to match all of my other books. (White, to represent its innocent naïveté.) I recorded the new audiobook, better than before. And now, it’s finally available, in its third and final edition, directly from me.
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