You’re Going to Hear Me on Your (Internet) Radio

I returned to my old mediabistro.com stomping grounds yesterday, through a telephone call to Jason Boog, my successor at GalleyCat, to talk about a new book project: the publication of a print version of my “translation” of the Tao Te Ching, a work I’d been distributing for free online for the last six years. Getting Right with Tao includes a mild revision to that text, plus a new foreword and afterword and a special gift for the folks who buy it—because if you’re going to pay $9.95 for a book you could just download for free, you deserve something special, right?

Anyway, during my conversation with Jason (and AgencySpy editor Matt van Hoven), I talked about how that online version became so popular, to the point where it’s one of the first ten results you get when you search for “Tao Te Ching” in Google. We also chatted about how I ended up working with Channel V Books to do a print book after so many years of publishing this as an online exclusive, and about the impulse to do a rendition of the Tao Te Ching when I don’t, in fact, know a word of Chinese…

11 March 2010 | uncategorized |