This isn't the first time such an event has occurred. Kurt Vonnegut's latest publication, We Are What We Pretend To Be, an omnibus of his first and last works, is set to be released on 9 october, yet I saw it come in on Thursday, I think. The first time I remember something like this was when Haruki Murakami's latest novel, 1Q84, was published in late 2011, and Bookshare got it one day before its official release. Getting books on the day they're published is good enough, but having them on Bookshare before the general public by several days is even more pleasant a surprise.
On 29-Sep-12 20:35, Evan Reese wrote:
I just found a book on Bookshare that was added before it's officially published. The book, Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves, by George Church and Ed Regis.https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/550087According to Amazon, the book will not be released until Tuesday. That includes the Kindle version. I heard about it from one of the mailing lists I'm on. Just on a whim, I decided to enter the title into the Advanced search field, thinking that I could at least get one of those preview things I got once before, which would mean that the full book would be coming, hopefully on the day of it's official release. However, I was very pleasantly surprised to find that I was wrong. After downloading it and checking the size, and going to the bottom of the file on my Pac Mate, I discovered that this is indeed the full version of the book. It was added on September 14. On top of that, it is paginated, correctly. I know that because there's an index at the end and the page numbers there match a couple things I've checked. This is just so utterly cool I had to write and give massive kudos to Bookshare and the publisher Basic Books for letting me get ahold of this great book before it's released to the general public.Evan
