300 books from the New York Times? « It’s Getting Hot In Here

Our best estimate is that as of about 1:00 on Friday, Van Jones’ The Green Collar Economy is close, but still might be about 300-400 books away from reaching the New York Times bestsellers list by the midnight Friday deadline. We need your help.

Think about that! With almost no money and without a name like “Sarah Palin”, “Bill O’Reilly”, “Harry Potter”, or “Dewey the cat” in the title, we’re on the verge of making this book a New York Times bestseller. How? Magic.

Nope, not magic. With lots of friends telling friends telling friends about this book via email, phone, blogs, websites, and word of mouth, we reached #17 on Amazon on the book’s opening day (Tuesday 10/7). Not too shabby if you ask me.

Just think about what having a New York Times bestseller about green collar jobs and pathways out of poverty could do this close to the election..

Learn more about the book, read reviews, and buy it here. Go here for tools to spread the word. Btw, it’s still on sale for about $15. That’s a movie ticket in some places. Think about it.

About Josh

Josh Lynch works to bring people together for clean energy and green jobs. As Co-Founder of Energy Action Coalition, he was instrumental in building a diverse youth-led alliance that has become a force in U.S. politics. Serving as Campaign Manager for Green For All in 2008, he coordinated Green Jobs Now, the first national day of action for green collar jobs. In 2009 he led the Green Recovery For All Initiative, empowering low-income people and people of color to leverage stimulus dollars for green collar jobs and training. Josh graduated from the College of Wooster with a major in Philosophy. He now lives and works in Boston.

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1 Josh Lynch Oct 11th, 2008 at 12:31 pm

UPDATE: “The Green Collar Economy” skyrocketed on the Amazon.com bestsellers list yesterday – going from #37 on Thursday to #14 on Friday night!
2 Morgan Taylor Nov 16th, 2008 at 11:49 pm

Josh-

I am a journalism major at the University of Oregon and am creating an advertising campaign around the Campus Climate Challenge and OSPIRG. I read your blurb on this website and it sounds like you would be an excellent source, but I could not locate an e-mail address. Would you consider answering a few quick questions via e-mail sometime within the next week? If so, my e-mail address is mtaylor1@uoregon.edu.

I look forward to hopefully hearing from you!

Morgan Taylor