My charming Italian publishers tell me that the launch of The No Asshole Rule, called Il Metodo Antistronzi, is going well. And I am getting a constant flow of emails from Italian’s who have read it. A woman wrote on Saturday to say that "I saw the book yesterday morning in a bookshop here in Rome and I bought it. After two hours I had already read the first hundred pages so I decided to buy a second copy for a dear friend of mine as a birthday present, and I did it immediately. Last night I completed the reading and I’m now going to buy a third copy for another dear friend." And the book is currently the #6 book on IBS.IT, a top internet bookstore in Italy.
I would be especially interested to hear from Italian readers about the nuances of workplace abuse and asshole management in their country. I love Italy, and tried desperately to get there for the book launch, but alas, as the saying goes, life happens while you make other plans.
P.S. My publisher just gave me an update — Il Metodo Antistronzi has started-off with a bang. They have done 8 printings in the first two weeks, and there are 80,000 copies in print in Italian. The only place that more copies have sold is the U.S., but the Italians are way ahead per capita!
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