Buy It Forward
The authors bought thousands of copies of Exploring MycoFi and gave them away. If one of them reached you, and you think the content should reach someone else, buy the next reader’s copy.
Those purchases pool into the MycoFi fund, and the fund buys the next batch to give away. The book pays for its own distribution, and it travels as far as its readers decide it should.
How a copy comes back around
Seeded
The authors bought thousands of copies of Exploring MycoFi and gave them away. No funnel, no gate, no launch campaign. That was the first release into the network.
Received
A copy reaches you — handed over at a conference, passed around a study circle, left on a table for whoever picks it up next. You did not pay for it and were never asked to.
Forwarded
You read it and decide the content is worth other people having. So you buy copies for readers you will never meet. That purchase is the whole ask on this page.
Pooled
Those purchases collect in the MycoFi fund, and the fund buys the next batch to give away. The loop closes wider than it opened, and it runs again.
Put the next copies in
Any amount goes into the same pool. The figures below are reference points for what a contribution covers, not tiers you have to pick from.
- $25
- One copy into the next batch
- $75
- Three copies for a reading group
- $250
- Ten copies for a workshop or classroom set
- $500
- Twenty copies for a full table at an event
Sponsor a copy
Every contribution goes into the same pool and comes back out as books.
The payment gateway is not live yet
You can still set an amount, but nothing will be charged and nothing is stored. To buy forward today, or to hear when this opens, email [email protected].
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The back cover closes the loop
Every copy that goes out carries this code, and it lands here. A reader who was given the book can put the next one into circulation without hunting for a link — which is the step where a chain like this usually breaks.
The files are here for anyone laying out a cover, a flyer or a zine page. Print it at 30mm across or larger, keep the white margin around it, and use the press file in solid black rather than a brand colour — fine detail in several inks fringes when the plates shift.
Want one of your own?
Buying forward puts books in other people’s hands. For a copy that stays in yours, the book lives at book.mycofi.earth.