My new book, Transaction Denied: Big Finance’s Power to Punish Speech, is available for pre-order today.
Here are three ways to order:
1. Use this link to order from Bookshop.org and a portion of the proceeds will go to support an amazing bookstore in Stratford, CT called Obodo Serendipity Books.
3. Order from Barnes and Noble.
You can also contact your local bookstore to get a copy on order.
Regardless of where you order the book from, a portion of the book sales will go to benefit the nonprofit Freedom of the Press Foundation.
Pre-ordering books is one of best ways to support an author. Strong pre-sales lead to more promotional opportunities, more book events, more media interest, and then more book sales. This becomes a flywheel effect: the more attention your book gets early on, the more opportunities it has to get attention later. So please pre-order the book on any platform you would like. There will be an audiobook at launch, too.
Transaction Denied delves into a key issue that has gotten a lot of attention lately: what does it mean to have a financial system that is not speech neutral? I talk about how financial companies have byzantine terms that give them vast power to cut off the accounts of speakers on a whim. And, it’s not those in power who are losing access to the financial system. Those who are otherwise denied power in our society suffer the most from this sort of censorship.
The book is full interviews with people who lost their financial accounts because of otherwise legal speech. Between those stories, I talk about the laws, regulations, and corporate policies that created this system, and some of the key court battles that have left us in a state where financial companies have so much power to punish disfavored speakers.
The more I worked on the book, the more I realized this wasn’t just a book about speech and money—it’s about democracy. It’s about whether financial corporations should have the right to control which speakers are punished, and it’s about who can freely participate in our society. And those choices impact all of us.
Please pre-order today and please share the word on social media. If you’re interested in hosting a book event (in person or on Zoom), please let me know.
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