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V 7:9 April 12, 2012
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"All oppression creates a state of war."
-- Simon de Beauvoir
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The Book: 99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality Is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do About It
Why Read It? Who are the 99%? Who are the 1%? How extensive and systematic is inequality throughout society? What are its true causes and consequences? How is inequality changing our world? And what can be done about it?
Author Chuck Collins has been a leading voice and activist on these questions. In 99 to 1, he marshals wide-ranging data from a variety of sources to paint a graphic picture of how disparities in wealth and power play out in America and around the world. This book reveals the concrete meaning of "the 99% and the 1%" by looking not just at individual households, but at the business world, the media, and the earth as a whole.
Read an excerpt here and buy the book for 30% off.
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For review and media copies, please contact Cynthia Shannon.
For academic review copies, please contact Mike Crowley.
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Benefits for 100%
In this issue of the Communiqué, we  explore the politics and economics of the haves and the have-nots, and we examine the consequences of wealth disparity on both sides.
People mistakenly assume that balancing out income disparity results in wealthy people losing everything while poorer people gain everything. To illustrate the fallacy of this belief, author Chuck Collins offers us a list of Five Ways Bridging the Wealth Gap Helps Both the 99% and the 1%.
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Other News
+ What was behind the mysterious disappearance of Amazon's Kindle stores' "buy" buttons?
+ Some revealing new glimpses of noted author and recluse Harper Lee have been provided by her sister.
+ Ex-Goldman Sachs executive Greg Smith, who wrote a scathing Op-Ed in the New York Times about the investment house's "toxic" culture, just landed a $1.5 million book deal.
+ Writers, publishers, and the lies they put out into the world -- why do they sensationalize? Publishing site Slushpile tackles the issue.
+ April Fools' Day has come and gone, but not many people know of the pranks and jokes played on others by literary heavyweights.
+ You thought publishers were a boring lot, but that mystery marijuana shipment to St. Martin's Press made us seem more exciting -- even if just for a minute.
+ You'll still have to bring your seats upright at landing and takeoff, but it's possible that the FAA will permit you to keep using your iPad.
+ Richard Burton was boring, Paul Newman was dull, Yul Brynner was racist, and lots of other interesting dirty laundry is aired in actor Frank Langella's just-released autobiography.
+ The author of a controversial Vogue magazine essay that was dubbed by culture site Jezebel as "the worst Vogue article ever" has just received a contract for a book based on the essay.
+ Writer and journalist Al Kennedy vents about how he hates the myth of the suffering artist.
Freebies
+ Free Excerpt from a New York Times Bestseller: Becoming China's Bitch, by Peter D. Kiernan. Read an excerpt here.
+ Free Stuff: Teach yourself the Gernreich alphabet here.
+ Free Software: A listing (with links) to free cloud services with pros and cons for each can be found here.
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 BK's Publisher Steve "the Sadist" Piersanti returns with the new, updated, and even more depressing edition of The Ten Awful Truths About Book Publishing.
And to better help you carry the pain and share it with others, you can also download a PDF version here.
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Free E-Book (for 48 Hours)
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 For forty-eight hours, we are giving away e-copies of our bestselling title This Changes Everything: Occupy Wall Street and the 99% Movement, edited by Sarah van Gelder and the staff of Yes! Magazine, and you can download it here. In thanks for your loyal readership, this e-book will be available as a free download exclusively for BK Communiqué subscribers. But act fast! After midnight on April 14, 2012, you're going to have to plunk down $9.95 like everyone else.
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Title: Salsa, Soul, and Spirit: Leadership for a Multicultural Age, second edition
Author: Juana Bordas
What's the Fuss? The bestselling first edition introduced a multicultural leadership model that offered a flexible and inclusive way to lead with a new vision of the roles of leaders. In this revised edition, Bordas updates all of the data and extends the focus of the work to millennials by adding exclusive chapters and content dealing with the migration of this generation into the workforce.
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 I'm Bonnie Kaufman, Editorial Associate and Digital Community Builder (and a fan of puppies learning how to howl). The 2012 ASME National Magazine Award Finalists were announced last week, and I've since been making my way through the pieces. It was hard to choose, but here are my five favorites:
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 You've seen the photos and signs everywhere, but never all in one place. Now you can. We Are the 99 Percent is a Tumblr site that contains the photo stories of thousands of everyday citizens from all walks of life and how they are trying to cope.
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Last time, I issued this challenge. The first correct  answer came from Greg Stephens. The answer can be found here.
And your next challenge can be found here.
Email me with any comments or rants as well as how useful it is to know how to escape from handcuffs.
And if you're destroying beans, you may be tough enough for the harsh world of competitive quidditch.
Jeevan 
P.S. -- this isn't real, is it?
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