Axel Heyst Published a Book!

[jennypenny]

aaaaand it's up on Audible.

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[jennypenny]

I have both the book and the audible version. AH did a great job with the narration (not easy!) and it plays well with the structure of the narrative. I usually feel like audible versions lose something in translation but not in this case.

Offing the OG though ... ballsy.

[AxelHeyst]

Offing the OG though ... ballsy.

Haha it had to be done. Thanks for reading.

For anyone on the fence or just curious, I uploaded the full audio of Chapter 1 to youtube and my podcast.

[The_Bowme]

Listened to the audiobook on a roadtrip with the gf. Great job, definitely can feel the soul that was put into it! Was a good jumping off point for me and her to talk about how we see some of these issues.

[AxelHeyst]

Was a good jumping off point for me and her to talk about how we see some of these issues.

Mission accomplished, then.

[Scott 2]

My library now offers the ebook via Hoopla. That's pretty cool. Opens opportunity for serendipity, not that the book is expensive.

Are you still working to distribute the audiobook beyond Amazon?

[just]

I bought the book through a German store (I live in Denmark). Looks like it was printed on demand in Hamburg(?) - thought that was neat.

I enjoyed the book. It's a quick read and the conversational style worked well. I thought it might get trite, but it didn't. I wonder why that style isn't used more.

I found it very helpful that you include references with each chapter to books, podcasts, and videos.

[AxelHeyst]

Are you still working to distribute the audiobook beyond Amazon?

Been tardy on this, but I just submitted it to the non-Amazon audiobook distributor. It'll take ~10days for it to get approved etc.

I bought the book through a German store (I live in Denmark). Looks like it was printed on demand in Hamburg(?) - thought that was neat.

Print on demand is great for self-publishers! The headache of getting indie books published even a couple decades ago must have been a big barrier to entry (both a bad and a good thing...). Upload digital files anywhere, machines print copies when ordered, nearest to where they're ordered. I know I'm kinda hard on "the system" in my book, but a global network of autonomous book-printing robots is pretty cool.

[AxelHeyst]

All right the non-amazon audiobook distribution is unrolling - here's the list of options to date:

https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9798318055423
https://play.google.com/store/audiobook ... AEBKzRGNSM
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/audiobook/deep-response-1
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/deep-r ... 0192979457
https://www.storytel.com/se/sv/books/de ... s-11426707

[Scott 2]

Was able to buy from Libro, thanks.

[frugaldoc]

I am on a book buying moratorium so figured I wasn't going to be able to read this until I got stateside and either the moratorium ended, or I found it in the library. But then I discovered I have six Audible credits! So now I have listened to it and came away quite pleased with paradigm shift I feel that is occurring within me. I am not overly invested in many of the passions/causes that people on this board are but even I had fallen into this trap of seeing the world as a false dichotomy. I was a long-time listener to Radical Personal Finance but became increasingly disillusioned with his let's keep growing the population and technology will save us optimism. So, then I fell into the "I guess it will be like Mad Max in much of the world" belief. This book as shown me that there is a lot more subtlety to a possible civilization collapse and one can be quite content living through the middle of one.

[grundomatic]

My library now offers the ebook via Hoopla. That's pretty cool. Opens opportunity for serendipity, not that the book is expensive.

Are you still working to distribute the audiobook beyond Amazon?

Thanks for posting this--I got it and read it through my library and Hoopla.

I thought time traveling to advise oneself was a good move. Enables you to throw the tough stuff out there because if it comes off preachy, hey, just preaching to yourself.