My "Noticing" is 25% Off on Black Friday

Passage Press is selling my $29.95 anthology "Noticing" for $23.60 on Friday, November 28, including domestic shipping.

UPDATE: My paperback and leatherbound hardback are now on sale for 25% off as of Thursday evening, November 27. But no sign yet that my Twitter golf hat will be marked down.

As of Friday morning, the latest is that the Noticing paperback is on sale for $16.88 … but … you have to pay $6.72 in shipping because neither the “Wilson” nor “Stancil” discount codes work anymore. So, the total cost for obtaining Noticing domestically is $23.60 on Black Friday:

Sounds like a deal!

My 437-page book Noticing, an anthology of my best work over the half-century from my 1973 one-paragraph letter to the editor of National Review at age 14 regarding the IQ inequality controversy to my 2023 summing-up “What If I’m Right?” makes a fine Christmas present for a loved one or for yourself.

Or get one for each on Friday and save $15.

An email from Passage Press:

It’s that time of year again...

We have one sale a year to help our beloved readers celebrate Christmas with the best gifts around. This year, we’ve pulled out all the stops.

We are featuring new book bundles with discounts up to 35% off titles, plus free shipping for any U.S. order over $75.

We have soft launched these deals now. On Friday, 12:01am, a 25% discount will apply to all a la carte purchases on the Passage website.

Happy Thanksgiving & happy reading!

So, if I’m reading my publisher’s email right, don’t buy Noticing from Passage on Thanksgiving (Thursday), but do buy it on Black Friday, November 28, when my Noticing paperback will be marked down from $29.95 to ~$22.50 for, I’m guessing, one day only.

Buy one for yourself and a few as Christmas gifts.

The paperback is normally available for $29.95 from Passage Press, with no charge for shipping within the United States (you get free shipping if, while checking out, you enter the code “Wilson,” the name of the Guardian reporter who doxed Lomez, launching him on his career as a celebrity. Note: “Stancil” doesn’t seem to work anymore for free shipping.)

But this Friday you can buy Noticing for about $22.50 (and get free shipping with the “Wilson” code).

Also, there are a few dozen leather-bound copies of the 400 Noticing hardbacks left at Passage. They usually sell at a price of (gulp) $395 (which includes shipping). If my calculations are right, a hardback will sell for about $296.75 on Black Friday, a $98.75 discount.

A $395 $296.75 Patrician Edition isn’t for everybody, but I haven’t heard any complaints from those willing to pay the price: it’s a lovely physical object.

All in all, I get paid more money when you buy the paperback domestically from Passage than from Amazon for $29.95. The only loser if you buy from Passage with free domestic shipping is Jeff Bezos. (And I doubt he’ll miss the money too much.)

Passage Press is right now (Thursday) also offering a “Paleocon Bundle” of my book along with John Derbyshire’s, Paul Gottfried’s, and Taki’s books for $116.00, with no shipping charge domestically, compared to $154.00 if you bought each one separately (24.7% off).

On the other hand, Bezos does earn his cut on overseas shipping.

How much does it cost to ship a paperback copy of Noticing outside of the United States? The only foreign home address I know off the top of my head is Keir Starmer’s at No. 10 Downing St. To ship the Labour prime minister an enlightening copy of Noticing (although I fear it’s too late to help the poor man’s career) would cost 16 pounds (or $21.16) for shipping by Passage, but only $8.54 for shipping by Amazon. As you may have noticed, Amazon is good at logistics.

Noticing is also available in audio and digital formats from Amazon.

The audio version is available from Amazon Audible for $24.95 (with no shipping cost for immediate download). I narrated every word of Noticing across 17 hours and 33 minutes.

You can also read the Kindle digital download by buying it from Amazon for $9.95.

Also, you can buy from Passage my Twitter hat featuring the 18th hole at Cypress Point for $28.95 (which should be about $21.75 on Black Friday), with free shipping with the “Wilson” cheat code.

Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas.