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 is co-founder of the Energy Action Coalition, a youth alliance working to support and strengthen the youth movement for a clean, efficient, just, and renewable energy future. He has been a lead designer and organizer of new initiatives such as Fossil Fools Day, the Climate Week of Action, and the No Coal Initiative. He served as national student organizer for Greenpeace USA where he led a successful campaign to pass a comprehensive green building and clean energy policy at California State University. A graduate in Philosophy from the College of Wooster in Ohio, Josh now lives and works in San Francisco.

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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