FEEDING THE MONSTER:
SIGNED COPIES

Every now and then, I'll get a request for a signed copy of Feeding the Monster. While poking around on the Interweb, I stumbled across the website for this little book called Freakonomics, a small, niche tome that has drawn some attraction from academics and hard-core economists. As authors Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner explained: "The logistics aren't very smooth. A person would have to mail the book to one of us, and include a stamped envelope addressed to the other one of us, and another stamped envelope back to the book's owner. So here's a better solution: the signed bookplate. A bookplate is a simple but nicely designed sticker that the two of us can sign and then simply mail to you, to be placed inside your book (or on your dashboard or forehead if you want), like one of those old 'ex libris' stickers. We'll even pay the postage."

There's not two of me, but the logistics are still tricky (especially since I don't live in a doorman building). So I'll shamelessy rip of Levitt and Dubner's solution to this problem: send your name and address to me at monsterfeedback at gmail dot com with a subject line of "bookplate" and I'll send one along.

IMPORTANT: January 3. 2009 update. An unexplained and bizarre rash of requests -- many from Russia, India, and the U.K. -- has resulted in a changing of the bookplate guidelines. In addition to what's laid out below, emails must also include one sentence explaining your interest. That sentence can describe what you like about the book, or what your Aunt Mary liked about the book, or even what you hated about the book...but it needs to be a full sentence.