I’m trying to remember when it was last this crazy at work. Before we spent a month fighting poor planning and terrible execution on the publication of our new book It Doesn’t Have To Be Crazy At Work. Was it when we got DDoS’ed over two days and were fighting to keep Basecamp on the internet? Was it when we touched the third rail and spoke about customer data in public? Or do we have to go all the way back to the early days when Basecamp went down whenever I, as the only technical person at the time, would get on an airplane?
A bizarre story of publishing what might have otherwise been a bestseller.
I always enjoy a touch of schadenfreude — who doesn’t — and this story makes me feel for the 37 Signals crew. My normal suspicion would be that the big publisher made all their advance back on the first printing, after which they don’t actually have much further interest. 10,000 copies of a $27 book and a mid six-figure advance? Yes, that could be it.
I always enjoy a touch of schadenfreude — who doesn’t — and this story makes me feel for the 37 Signals crew. My normal suspicion would be that the big publisher made all their advance back on the first printing, after which they don’t actually have much further interest. 10,000 copies of a $27 book and a mid six-figure advance? Yes, that could be it.
I always enjoy a touch of schadenfreude — who doesn’t — and this story makes me feel for the 37 Signals crew. My normal suspicion would be that the big publisher made all their advance back on the first printing, after which they don’t actually have much further interest. 10,000 copies of a $27 book and a mid six-figure advance? Yes, that could be it.