Get the Book: Adventures in Canadian Policy

Now you can get older posts of The Audit - and more - in book form

Abandoning all good sense, I decided to take many of the first 50 posts from The Audit and convert them into a book:

Why should content that’s already (mostly) available online need repackaging as a book? Well I have reasons:

• I believe in the stuff I publish here. Highlighting the wasteful and just plain bizarre policies identified in these posts represents a genuine opportunity for improving how governments work. And it bothers me that, after a few days or weeks, older posts just disappear from sight. Sure, they’re all still there for someone who knows how to find them, but most people don’t. Books, however, allow for easier discovery over the long term.

• There’s actually some new stuff in the book. The first chapter, for instance, is a big-picture introduction describing the current state of the government. This provides important context that’ll help everything else make sense. On occasion, I also combined multiple posts into single chapters to make them easier to understand. I also added updates where useful. And I may even have removed one or two typos.

• The book’s chapters are divided into sections: Governance, Transparency, and Policy. This adds shape and meaning to the content.

• Publishing the content in book form provides a new platform through which more Canadians can discover The Audit. I can write more and faster than just about anyone I know. But so what? That won’t accomplish anything unless people choose to read it. And that won’t happen unless people find it.

• And who knows? A book might actually generate some income which I can use to expand and improve everything else I’m doing with The Audit.

Curious about any posts you might have missed? Interested in getting all the play-by-play in one place? Prefer reading physical (or Kindle) books? Do consider picking up a copy of The Audit: Adventures in Canadian Policy - Data stories from the land that competence forgot.

It would make a huge difference if you could leave a review for the book on Amazon. And please tell your friends. (You do have friends, don’t you?)

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