Remember the big fuss when Chelsea Green gave Amazon.com an early exclusive on a pro-Obama book? The plan was for Chelsea Green to pass out coupons at the Democratic National Convention for a special discount on the print-on-demand edition of Robert Kuttner‘s Obama’s Challenge, which would available only at Amazon until the book officially published on September 15.
Apparently that discount isn’t just for attendees of last month’s convention anymore—the independent publisher sent out an email yesterday afternoon distributing the discount redemption code to everyone in its computer database, and encouraged bloggers to publish that code on their websites so even more people could order the Amazon edition. If you’re interested, that code is also embedded in an animated PowerPoint presentation that was uploaded to YouTube late last week, depicting Chelsea Green as plucky underdogs fighting against entrenched right-wing networks of influence and “boycotting by the conservative book industry.”
