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Get a free e-copy of Guy Kawasaki's book The Macintosh Way

For those of us who were followers of Apple back in the 80s and 90s, there was no single person who defined the enthusiasm and overall attitude of the company more than Guy Kawasaki. Guy was part of the team responsible for the original marketing of the Mac, and is credited with the use of evangelism in tech marketing to create a passionate following for a product.

His 1989 book The Macintosh Way was the first in a series of successful books about the sometimes uneasy marriage of tech and business, and to this day is not only a must-read for tech marketers, but also a wonderful history of the early days of Apple. Kawasaki went on to write other books: a copy of his book Selling The Dream (1992) remains on my bookshelf as inspiration to this day, and The Art of the Start (2004) is a how-to gem for tech startups. Kawasaki is now a venture capitalist and blogger, and is involved in the Alltop RSS aggregator.

Kawasaki now has the rights to The Macintosh Way in his hands, and he's giving away electronic copies of the book to anyone who follows him on Twitter. To nab a digital copy of the book, run out to this site. There will be a short delay (or long wait if the Fail Whale is breaching), and as soon as you're validated as a follower of @guykawasaki you'll be able to download your copy.

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glad

free book his tweets are like god damn spam so many that you just ignore them after a while

August 16 2010 at 6:39 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mgabrys

So the replacement "visionary" figurehead of Apple during the Sculley years is trying to remain relevant? Perhaps he and Gasse could get together for coffee and wait for the photographers to show up.

Hint - he bailed as soon as Steve returned. The admiration for those coat-tails don't extend to the current CEO.

August 16 2010 at 4:13 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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ben

He was one of those sales guys, obviously not one of those people Steve Jobs was interested in keeping around.

August 16 2010 at 6:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
guy

I remember following Guy for about 1 day. He spammed so much crap in 1 day that my Twitter was unreadable. Waaaay too much useless posting and retweeting crap from that guy. Ugh.

I like him and his works, but his twitter feed can get rediculous.

August 16 2010 at 3:33 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
gianpa

Oh no!!!

The Twitter API is misbehaving! Try again shortly.

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on firefox and safari...

August 16 2010 at 1:38 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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MikeS

Go scroll through the comments, he gives the direct link there.

August 16 2010 at 2:06 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Doc Rock

I have an autographed copy of this book from the first pressing. Guy was home in Hawaii for a few days and he came to one of our users groups meetings. Great book great "Guy"

I also recommend reading Reality Check, Guy's most recent book.

August 16 2010 at 1:18 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
thelongmile

Thanks!

August 16 2010 at 1:17 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
thelongmile

and the link to the site is......?

August 16 2010 at 1:09 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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