John asks viewers to pre-order and buy signed copies of Everything Is Tuberculosis (2024)
ask · status: promotion (not a request) · last event: thanks (2026-03-24) · owner: John and Hank
In March 2025, in the weeks before Everything Is Tuberculosis came out, John asked viewers to pre-order signed copies and thanked those who had. After the release the brothers kept pointing viewers to signed copies and the audiobook read by John, into April 2025.
Part of: Everything Is Tuberculosis: John's nonfiction book about tuberculosis (2024)
Told alongside: John: sign 100,000 copies of Everything Is Tuberculosis (2024) · Everything Is Tuberculosis book tour (2025) · John: make a large-ish tuberculosis announcement within a week to 10 days, explaining his signing of 100,000 sheets (2024)
About: Everything Is Tuberculosis
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-10-22 | asked | John says viewers can pre-order a signed copy via the link below or at everythingistb.com. | My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis 00:02:55 |
| 2024-10-25 | reminder | The description links to where viewers can get John's book. | I Don't Want them to Get Away With It… video description |
| 2024-11-01 | reminder | Hank points to the description for P4A art, the Vlogbrothers grant and the New York Times article; John adds a link to pre-order his new book. | Working Through a Crisis with My Brother 00:09:20 |
| 2024-12-02 | reminder | Hank says viewers can pre-order Everything Is Tuberculosis now and that he will link it in the description. | John, You're Doing Great 00:02:33 |
| 2024-12-31 | reminder | Everything Is Tuberculosis comes out March 18, and signed copies are available for pre-order now. | I Just Can't Do It Anymore 00:04:51 |
| 2025-01-07 | reminder | The description asks viewers to preorder Everything Is Tuberculosis. | The Format but it hurts to stand up video description |
| 2025-01-10 | reminder | Hank asks viewers to buy the book at the book's website and check which tour stops still have tickets, as many have sold out. | SECRET PROJECT ANNOUNCEMENT! 00:04:57 |
| 2025-02-18 | reminder | John jokes that viewers have already pre-ordered his book, and says signed copies are available wherever good books are sold. (playful) | Gastrointestinal Hypermotility in Tuatara 00:01:57 |
| 2025-02-25 | reminder | John says this was the first chapter of his new book Everything Is Tuberculosis, out March 18, with signed copies available for pre-order now. | EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS 00:09:27 |
| 2025-03-04 | reminder | John asks viewers to pre-order a signed copy of the book today, with the link in the description. | The ANXIETY IS PALPABLE 00:00:58 |
| 2025-03-11 | reminder | John says his book Everything Is Tuberculosis comes out next week (week of 17 March 2025) and is available for pre-order now, with signed copies wherever books are sold. | Hank Green's Brother 00:00:04 |
| 2025-03-11 | thanks | John thanks everyone who pre-ordered the book: only seven days until it is out, and he is excited and appropriately nervous. | Hank Green's Brother 00:03:51 |
| 2025-03-14 | reminder | Hank tells viewers they can pre-order John's book now to ship next week (week of 17 March 2025), or buy it in a store on Tuesday; link in the description. | Probably the Luckiest Thing in my Life 00:04:27 |
| 2025-03-18 | reminder | Correcting himself from pre-order, John says viewers can now order a signed copy, or one of the rare unsigned copies where signed ones are gone. (playful) | ITS ALL HAPPENING 00:01:52 |
| 2025-03-21 | reminder | Hank says the book is available now wherever books are sold. | The Second Most Important Book in Dublin 00:00:55 |
| 2025-03-25 | reminder | The description asks viewers to order a signed copy of Everything Is Tuberculosis at everythingistb.com or wherever books are sold. | Taylor, Dr Pepper, and My Anxiety Strats: It's Question Tuesday video description |
| 2025-04-04 | reminder | Hank tells viewers they can get the book everywhere, including as an audiobook read by John. | Morality 00:07:49 |
| 2025-04-22 | thanks | Though very tired, John says he is excited and motivated by his work and grateful to everyone who has read and shared Everything Is Tuberculosis. | The Unimportant Things 00:03:51 |
| 2025-05-20 | thanks | John thanks the book's supporters; meeting so many viewers in two months, he has preached that the world's deadliest infection is curable and eradicable. | The Double 00:03:53 |
| 2025-07-01 | result reported | John says his book was almost guaranteed a #1 because he signed over 100,000 copies of the first printing and about 50,000 people pre-ordered it. | What #1 New York Times Bestseller Actually Means 00:00:29 |
| 2026-03-24 | thanks | John thanks viewers for giving Everything Is Tuberculosis an incredible first year and is grateful for how the book has been received. | How Panda Express Is Tuberculosis 00:05:02 |
What is said about it
4 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — announcement: John announces his new book, Everything Is Tuberculosis, comes out March 18, is available for pre-order now, and he will show its cover. — 00:00:03
- 2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — announcement: John says an audiobook narrated by him is available for pre-order; it is unsigned only because he hasn't figured out how to sign digitally. (playful) — 00:03:10
- 2024-12-31 · I Just Can't Do It Anymore — John: On Amazon the signed edition of Everything Is Tuberculosis currently costs $7 less than the unsigned one, so, John jokes, his signature is technically worth negative $7. (playful) — 00:03:05
- 2025-02-25 · EVERYTHING IS TUBERCULOSIS — announcement: The description says the book can be pre-ordered at everythingistb.com or wherever books are sold, and that John narrates the audiobook. — video description