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Announcing the arrival.....

The Business Model Generation arrived in Canada today - wow. I am absolutely blown away by the the final product. The book is worth every one of the 4000+ hours, 28000+ post its, SKYPE calls and all the hours the design team spent huddled together to generate this piece of work. A great example of taking the content to a new level is the Strategy section. Even having participated in the content development I can't wait to get into the whole book, and to show it around my contacts and colleagues.

Congratulations to you all, project well done!

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Permalink Reply by Alex Osterwalder on October 6, 2009 at 3:00am

Thank you for the kind words, Mike!

So the book has touched down in the Netherlands, Germany, Thailand, Canada and I still didn't have a finished example in my hand... crazy...

WHICH OTHER COUNTRIES HAVE RECEIVED THE BOOK?

:-D

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Permalink Reply by Jay Goldman on October 6, 2009 at 3:05am

Just got mine today — also in Canada (Toronto).

It's absolutely amazing and I can't wait to share it with my colleagues. I only regret that I wasn't able to be more involved in the production! Glad I could contribute a bunch at the beginning.

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Permalink Reply by Jonathan Lin on October 6, 2009 at 4:43am

I just got it in the mail, but had to go to work.... so it's sitting on my desk at home. I'll get to it tonight once I get home (Toronto, Canada)

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Permalink Reply by Daniël Giesen on October 6, 2009 at 8:14am

I am very sorry for my late post. I received the book already last Thursday. A couple of days later, I still cannot wait every evening to read some parts of it after work. It is a tremendous experience to read and really nice to see such a business model innovation in the publishing industry! Photo's will follow, will make some nice ones with my colleague Bas.

Cheers,

Daan

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Permalink Reply by Jille Sol on October 6, 2009 at 9:02am

I got mine last friday. I absolutely love it! It's colorful, beautiffully designed, sturdy, handy, etc. Most important it really signals what this whole project was about. It's a new, refreshing kind of management book. Actually I think it is setting a new standard for thinking and sharing ideas. Not just the way the book looks like, but the way it says 'we didn't just made a new book, we did everything different and it works!
Without the core team it would never have happened. You guys did a magnificent job

Jille

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Permalink Reply by Albert Meige on October 6, 2009 at 9:55am

got it i France!
very nice!
congratulations.
Albert

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Permalink Reply by Frank Meeuwsen on October 6, 2009 at 9:59am

Woohoo! I got my book today from my neighbours :-) We were away for the weekend when it arrived here in Utrecht, the Netherlands but she just gave it to me. It looks absolutely amazing and it really accounts for the difference between a PDF and the real thing. No matter how great the PDF is, when you hold this book in your hands, it's worth so much more just by the material, the way it is printed, the paper, the binding.
Congratulations on a great job well done!

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Permalink Reply by Tor R. Grønsund on October 6, 2009 at 10:39am

Still waiting for mine, in Norway :-)

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Permalink Reply by Alan Smith on October 6, 2009 at 10:50am

Got it in UK!!

I was surprised by how much value the final print + finishing adds over our mockups or mockups we saw at the printers. Feeling the final cover and all of the finishing actually stitched together is quite enchanting. Frank was right, the PDF's were nice, but it really comes alive "IN" the book.

Even though I see and feel this phenomenon often as designer and it shouldn't be a surprise, it still is - every time!

Really excited for everyone else to receive theirs...
-Alan

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Permalink Reply by Mike Lachapelle on October 6, 2009 at 12:45pm

Alan

I'm often reluctant to admit it, but I read and react better to the physical over the electronic. I'm not really sure if that is a personal or a generational bias. But there is a definite 'feel' that comes with having that book in hand and I don't think the electronic will ever do justice to the visual impact of the hard material.

I want to pass along to you one simple comment about the final design - absolutely brilliant.

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Permalink Reply by Nicky Smyth on October 6, 2009 at 6:42pm

I too have received the book in London.

Many thanks to the core team for co-ordinating and pulling this off! Alan - I particularly like the design which transforms the book into an artefact.