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The books the Stripe has announced here are all pretty exciting to me – I want to read them all.

When Netflix started doing original content, "Netflix Original" was essentially a seal of quality, and I was typically excited enough to at least check out each one. As they've pumped out so much quantity lately, that quality bar has dropped significantly.

I hope Stripe Press is successful enough to keep putting out great content, but not successful enough to succumb to the same fate. Patrick's love (at least Patrick – I'm sure others) of books that he's discussed at length gives me some hope.

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> Patrick's love (at least Patrick – I'm sure others) of books that he's discussed at length gives me some hope.

Definitely feels like this is directly channeling Patrick. It looks like Stripe Press is going to republish The Dream Machine, which he's recommended on more than one occasion.

They're also all hard cover books, probably in his own preference too.

I'm definitely a fan of this project but it'd be a mistake to attribute too much to me... it's led within Stripe by a team of very talented people.

I stand firmly corrected!

The entire team did an excellent job, and they definitely deserve credit here. It's very well made!

I wanted to buy the hardcover/paperback version of the "The Dream Machine" but it's all out of print everywhere. And I read on the Bloomberg article[0] about Patrick's buying the rights for the book. So I thought it would be really great if he somehow sells/republishes it. Now it's happening and I can't be happier.

On the other hand, I also ended up buying the kindle version and I can't say enough of how great the book is!

[0]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-08-01/how-two-b...

Keep in mind that the content they pump out is often meant for highly targeted audiences, so naturally over time as they pump out more content you're going to see you won't like most of it, except the stuff made especially for people like you.

This is nice, but some of these titles are listed as "Notify me when available" when I've already read them which seems a bit odd. Did they buy the rights to exclusively publish "Dream Machine"? Looks like it is still available in a number of other places.

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