Ben Mezrich's Pre-Pub Pitch for the Embargoed Accidental Billionaires

By Tom

The first words about The Accidental Billionaires, Ben Mezrich's upcoming book on the controversial founding of Facebook in the Harvard dorms--due out on July 14 amid much secrecy--are out: the New York Times, as usual, has obtained an advance copy of the book, and Brad Stone spills some of the beans based on an initial read, and in Boston magazine, Luke O'Brien, a Harvard grad, like Mezrich, who has done a lot of his own reporting on the Facebook origins story, writes a much more thorough account (with some replies from Mezrich) of his advance copy and the controversy. (Via Gawker.)

I talked to Mezrich, who has developed a bestselling specialty in books likeBringing Down the House about brainiac college kids trying to make a big score in the real world, at BookExpo last month, and I'll feature our interview here when the book is released in July, but in the meantime, here's his short video pitch for the book:

Vide Ben Mezrich on The Accidental Billionaires

--Tom