The Most Important Book of Our Time: Now For the Amazon Kindle
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by John Hargrave  128,123  71
02/22/2010 04:08 AM 1011 views
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 I am pleased to announce my first book, PRANK THE MONKEY: THE ZUG BOOK OF PRANKS, today goes on sale for the Amazon Kindle. With a perfect five-star user rating on Amazon, PRANK THE MONKEY tells the story of my quest to prank the biggest, juiciest targets I could find -- from corporations to celebrities, from world governments to the very forces of nature. I prank Wal-Mart, Starbucks, utility companies, Ashton Kutcher, Madonna, Bill Gates, Bono, and the entire U.S. Senate, exposing them for the chimps they really are.
On the Kindle edition, we've also included a new BONUS chapter, "How We (Almost) Pranked the Super Bowl." (More on that in a second.)
PRANK THE MONKEY has been completely reformatted to look great on the Kindle, which was a huge labor of love. Imagine remixing a studio album not from master tapes, but from a cassette tape that had been submerged in a bowl of porridge, and you'll get the idea. We not only had to reformat the manuscript to work on the Kindle, but redo all the artwork, prank e-mails, prank letters, prank transcripts, and the dozens of other fun visual goodies you'll find throughout the book.
The good news is that the final product looks (and reads) great. My incomparable illustrator Al Natanagara designed artwork that was made to display on the Kindle, gorgeous black-and-white pencil sketches that look great in e-ink. And the Kindle's format is much closer to what I originally intended when I wrote the book -- although the Kindle has "pages," like a book, the flow of the text is much more like the long, scrolling format of the Web, which is how I write. Plus, all the publisher's misspellings have been corrected, except for one that I left in as a tribute to a special someone here on ZUG.
Amazon is selling the Kindle version for only $8.95, a terrific bargain given the new BONUS chapter, "How We (Almost) Pranked the Super Bowl," which tells the story of how we (almost) pranked the Super Bowl. While some of the material is taken from The Super Stunt, you'll get the full, untold story on what really happened that fateful night of Super Bowl XLI, and a behind-the-scenes look at the aftermath with my publisher, the media, and my life.
I've been asked when we're going to release PRANK THE MONKEY in other eBook formats. While we may eventually release it for Apple's new sanitary napkin, my money is on the Kindle. I think Amazon will eventually win the eBook war, I think Jeff is smarter than Steve, and I think people are finally getting tired of Apple products, as the lack of hype around the iPad has shown.
So for those of you who have a Kindle, check out the book here. And for everyone else: this is a perfect reason to plunk down the $250 for the Kindle today!
And now the link:
http://bit.ly/cxE7vs
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Hilarious
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Chuckleworthy
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Duke Ravos IV 62,361  20
02/22/2010 04:14 AM
you'll get the full, untold story on what really happened that fateful night of Super Bowl XLI, and a behind-the-scenes look at the aftermath with my publisher, the media, and my life.
I don't think a blank page really counts as a bonus.
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Amusing
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Cinderblock 27,522 24
02/22/2010 04:17 AM
I'm waiting until the movie version comes out.
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Hilarious
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Frozen Chickens Section 282,028 58
02/22/2010 04:27 AM
Is the unicorn porn animated in the Kindle version?
Cause I don't own one but some things might make it worth it.
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Amusing
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Barefoot Chance 171,220 14
02/22/2010 05:51 AM
You didn't buy 1 copy Chickens? Cheap ass! I bought 6.
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Bill the Squirrel 53,130 53
02/22/2010 05:54 AM
Dammit you guys! John told us not to post in spam threads.
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Funny
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Frozen Chickens Section 282,028 58
02/22/2010 06:03 AM
Shut yer piehole, Princess. I bought two copies of the analog version and donated one to my local library. And I won another signed copy.
I don't own A KINDLE.
Old school like dat.
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Funny
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John Hargrave 128,123 71
02/22/2010 11:11 AM
Yes, the full, uncensored Uniporn feature is in the Kindle version.
I'm pretty sure you won't find that feature in any Tom Clancy novels.
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orcgay atkay 41,132 12
02/22/2010 11:17 AM
Yeah, sure. Bonus chapter.
I know better..secret page, my ass.
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Ditdah 123,092 14
02/22/2010 11:37 AM
God dammit, John. I can't afford to plunk down $250 bucks for a Kindle just to see the e-version of the book, but I really want to see it. I can't afford a $300 icon either, but I'd love one of those, too. What's next? $500 for dinner with our favorite LIVE-r?** $700 for a signed, color drawing by Al? $1000 for a special edition ZUG-labeled Irish Whiskey? What else ZUG related can you sell that I really want but can't afford?!?
**Can we please come up with an appropriate substitute for GABber? I never know how to write "Liver" so it doesn't look like a body part. Also, can someone inform me how to format the font size? I wanted to make this little. Wasn't that an option before? I need a drink.
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Thud 66,695 17
02/22/2010 11:41 AM
I never know how to write "Liver" so it doesn't look like a body part.
LIVEr
Live-er
Gabber
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Chuckleworthy
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Midgets 93,936 47
02/22/2010 11:43 AM
Sad.
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Whistler P. McManus 183,262 42
02/22/2010 01:34 PM
You can buy a kindle book formatted for a PC, and iPhone or a Blackberry. You don't have to have a kindle to get it.
Still, I bought four copies of the paperback original, so I'm not plunking down another $9 just to read John's spin on the Super Bowl prank/fake/farce/failure.
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