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Michael Malice

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

No, just Amazon.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

The vast majority, yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

So it's not going to be in bookstores.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

So how difficult is the process of getting it on Amazon?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

So I'll tell you a funny story about how Amazon works.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

And because this was... I always planned for... Because everyone...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

People's, here's another piece of advice I will give people.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

Your life will be a lot easier if you realize that the majority of people in every industry are bad at their jobs.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

Like once you have that realization, everything else makes sense and your life will be a lot easier, right?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

So when I did the Anarchist Handbook, which was a collection of essays from various anarchists throughout history,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

When I submitted it to Amazon, there was a lot of copyright issues.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

Because they're like, do you have the rights to this essay?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

Do you have the rights to this essay?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

I had to go back and forth with them a lot to make sure I had copyright where everything was public domain.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

And the thing is, you update it, you give them the information, three days.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

There's another problem, it's not three days, so it's weeks.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

The other thing with their CreateSpace program is the paperback.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

and the ebook, the Kindle, are approved independently.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#347 โ€“ Michael Malice: Christmas Special

So just because it's approved for one, it's not approved for the other.