Book Giveaway Winners Announced (And an Apology)

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Matt Karamazov
July 21, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes

I’m sending you a rare Sunday evening newsletter - I won’t make a habit of it - just to update you on the status of the latest book giveaway, and to offer a little bit of an apology.

I’ve got two other quick things to tell you about too, but I’ll save those for the end.

First, the book giveaway.

As I mentioned last week, the author Nate Dallas generously offered me 10 free download codes for his book, You’re Too Good to Feel This Bad, that I could give away. Thanks, Nate!

The book really is phenomenal, and for everyone who didn’t win the giveaway, you can still have my complete notes/summary of the book, which you can find here for free.

And here are the 10 lucky winners (with part of their email addresses blocked out for privacy):

So if your email address ends in any one of those, check your email! You won!

Congratulations to all of you! You each win a free audiobook download of You’re Too Good to Feel This Bad, a fantastic book that’s perfect for ambitious, hardworking people looking to level up.

Now, the apology…

I sent out my book breakdown of Success is a Choice, by John C. Maxwell last week and it was put behind the “Premium Members” paywall by accident.

Well, not really by accident.

I meant to do that, but I’ve been working on updating the Premium Membership program for The Reading Life and I forgot to update some of the permissions, so actual Premium Members were locked out of it - yeah, sorry about that!

So, if you clicked on the full breakdown and were presented with this “GiVE mE MoNEy BeFOre YOu caN REad tHIs!” -looking page, you can still read the full breakdown for free by clicking here.

What I’m (most likely) going to do from now on is have 50-100 of my previous book breakdowns on one page that everyone can read for free, and then Premium Members of The Reading Life will be able to access all the latest ones.

Upgrade to Premium if you’d like full, unrestricted access to my library of more than 150+ book breakdowns!

Here are 50 of the free breakdowns that everyone can read right now - 50 books that had a profoundly positive impact on my life!

Now, two more super quick things, one of them hardly worth mentioning but the other one is pretty damn cool, if I may say so myself!

The thing that’s hardly worth mentioning is that I’m simplifying my “welcome” sequence - that series of welcome emails you receive once you subscribe to The Reading Life, so instead of 8 emails (wayyy too many, and probably kinda annoying), it’ll be more like 4-5.

Shorter ones, too.

But if you just subscribed a few days ago, you might still get one that says “Day 5 of 8” or something like that…and then nothing.

But don’t worry, you’re not missing anything critical - I’m basically just eliminating fluff. And instead of taking 8 emails to tell you about my YouTube channel, my private business mastermind, my XYZ…I’ll just…not do that.

And now the LAST thing I wanted to tell you about today - and you can see why I didn’t want to cram all this into tomorrow’s newsletter - is my brand new referral program for The Reading Life!

I won’t take up much more space in this email telling you about it, but you can find out about the hundreds of $$$ in rewards you can earn on this page here.

For example, here’s what you get for referring just 5 people to The Reading Life:

All My Book Notes (Summaries/Notes from 1,300+ Books)
3-Month Premium Membership to The Reading Life
52 Time Management Strategies Cheat Sheet
50% OFF 1 Business Coaching Call with Me ($75 Value)
$5 Donation in Your Name to First Book (A Registered Literacy Charity)

Needless to say, I’m pretty exciting about kicking this off! We’ll be able to help raise some much-needed cash for an amazing literacy charity, and I’ll be able to grow this newsletter at the same time!

So I hope you’re enjoying The Reading Life enough to share it with a few of your friends/acquaintances, and I will be extremely grateful if you would!

Forward this to a friend you think would love this book!

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OK, that’s it for now…

More excellent book recommendations coming your way soon!

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With that said, I hope you enjoyed this edition of The Reading Life, and enjoy the rest of your week!

Until next time…happy reading!

All the best,

Matt Karamazov

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