Read Max Labor Day sale: 20% off, this week only!

Highly sought-after Read Max merchandise on sale as well!

Greetings from Read Max HQ, to which I have recently returned from Pittsburgh, Penn., after a visit to my grandparents accompanied by the sole heir to the Read Max newsletter empire (my two-year-old). The trip, and the ongoing high-stakes negotiations with my son over various contract stipulations (bed times, number of times we can re-read the same George and Martha story, amount of M&Ms consumed, etc.), have psychically/financially ruined me, and Read Max will not publish a roundup this weekend.

However! In order to celebrate the sacrifices and triumphs of the labor movement, Read Max is pleased to engage in a semi-precedented Long Weekend Sale Event! From today 09/04 to Sunday 09/10, you can subscribe to Read Max at the low low rate of $40 a year or $4 a month. This rate comes out to a 20 percent discount--a perfect tribute to the global working class. Click the button below to take advantage of this discount:

If you are a new subscriber, or have poor reading comprehension, please allow me to remind you of

just a few of the many benefits of a Read Max subscription:

💫 At least two newsletters every week, exploring and explaining internet culture, the tech industry, funny memes, and other artifacts of our weird new future

💫 A weekly roundup of recommendations for overlooked and underseen books, movies, TV shows, and music

💫 Access to hand-aggregated, artisanally written, fully comprehensive syllabuses/explainers on topics like Web3, A.I., the FTX collapse, and the Metaverse

💫 Access to subscriber-only lists of Good Movies to Stream and Good Books to Read

💫 Cool Read Max merchandise, while supplies last

💫 A sense of cosmic tranquility/well-being

💫 Max Read’s eternal thanks

**Please note that this is a non-comprehensive list of subscriber benefits, and there may be psychic/medical/financial advantages to subscription not here enumerated.

But wait! There’s more! Not only is the flagship Read Max newsletter product on sale this week, so too is auxiliary (and highly collectible) Read Max merchandise. Specifically, the widely sought-after Read Max baseball cap--a reproduction of the iconic uniform headwear of Read Max service technicians--is currently on sale for $17 only:

Even better, paying subscribers get another $5 off! Use the code in your welcome email (or look here). We only have a handful left in storage, so buy up quickly!

Finally, let me say one more time, thank you to everyone who reads this newsletter, paying and free--I’m coming up on the two-year anniversary of this humble newsletter next month, and it’s still sort of unthinkable to me that this has become a self-sustaining proposition, all thanks to the thousands (!!) of freaks and weirdos who support it with subscriptions.

I have very little right to ask anything more of you, but if you like this newsletter, please recommend it to friends: I don’t have much in the way of a promotional apparatus, and word of mouth is by far the best means of finding other members of the deranged demographic to which this publication appeals. (There’s a referral program you can use to get a comped subscription for yourself.) Even better, you can buy your friends/enemies gift subscriptions--discount included:

Thanks again! We’ll return to our regular schedule later this week.