{"id":433721,"date":"2010-03-16T09:46:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T13:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37signals.com\/svn\/posts\/2209-karl-roves-book-vs-rework-what-the-american-people-need-to-know"},"modified":"2010-03-16T09:46:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T13:46:00","slug":"karl-roves-book-vs-rework-what-the-american-people-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/433721","title":{"rendered":"Karl Rove&#8217;s book vs. REWORK &#8211; what the American People need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/37signals.com\/rework\"><span class=\"caps\">REWORK<\/span><\/a>, our new book on starting, building, and growing &mdash; or not growing &mdash; a business was released one week ago today. The book is selling out around the country and rocketed to #3 on Amazon.com&#8217;s bestseller list. Thanks to everyone who picked up a copy and spread the word.<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s this book right ahead of it by this guy named Karl Rove. Heard of him? Turns out his book just came out too. And he&#8217;s all over the press (well, part of it) pitching, pitching, and pitching.<\/p>\n<p>We wondered how we could compete with Rove on the bestseller list. We don&#8217;t have the luxury of friends in high places. We don&#8217;t have national TV exposure. So how could we be Rovian and beat him at his own game? One thing immediately came to mind: <strong>An attack ad<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>With a wink and a grin, we present the truth about Karl Rove&#8217;s &#8220;Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight&#8221; and 37signals&#8217; <span class=\"caps\">REWORK<\/span>:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/cxnOKDZNA9s&#38;hl=en_US&#38;fs=1&#38;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/cxnOKDZNA9s&#38;hl=en_US&#38;fs=1&#38;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Spread the word. <a href=\"http:\/\/37signals.com\/rework\">Find out more about <span class=\"caps\">REWORK<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please direct all press\/media inquires to Jason Fried at <a href=\"mailto:jason@37signals.com\">jason@37signals.com<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Special thanks to Steve Delahoyde from <a href=\"http:\/\/coudal.com\">Coudal<\/a> for putting this together so quickly. We presented the idea in rough form late Thursday afternoon, and by Saturday morning we had the finished product uploaded to the <a href=\"http:\/\/basecamphq.com\/?source=svn_post\">Basecamp<\/a> project. We owe you Steve.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/37signals\/beMH?a=VmL-Q_EWZG0:JUUFGEAcnUI:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/37signals\/beMH?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/37signals\/beMH?a=VmL-Q_EWZG0:JUUFGEAcnUI:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/37signals\/beMH?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REWORK, our new book on starting, building, and growing &mdash; or not growing &mdash; a business was released one week ago today. The book is selling out around the country and rocketed to #3 on Amazon.com&#8217;s bestseller list. Thanks to everyone who picked up a copy and spread the word. But there&#8217;s this book right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7020,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}