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The Premium Book Series

The Premium Book Series

Seven business fables about technology, capital and who gets to decide.

Two books available. Five more planned. Each story stands alone. Together, they trace how technology changes power — from one company to industries, boards, capital systems, cyber resilience and national security.

The series progression

  1. Platform
  2. Industry
  3. Board
  4. Startup
  5. Accelerator
  6. Cyber
  7. Security

The series begins with the technology decisions inside a company and expands outward. Each book asks what must change when technology moves faster than the institution responsible for using it.

The books

Seven books, one argument

  • Book One

    The Platform Premium

    Available now

    A private-equity-backed logistics company must decide what to build, what to buy and what operational judgment cannot be outsourced.

  • Book Two

    The Industry Premium

    Available now

    An insurer discovers that its product is not the policy it sold, but the promise it must keep when paying becomes expensive.

  • Book Three

    The Board Premium

    Coming in 2026

    When scarcity turns every shareholder, customer and government into a claimant, a board must learn how to use disagreement without disintegrating.

  • Book Four

    The Startup Premium

    Coming soon

    A working invention must become a company customers can depend on.

  • Book Five

    The Accelerator Premium

    Coming soon

    An accelerator must decide whether it exists to raise more capital or help companies find the right path.

  • Book Six

    The Cyber Premium

    Coming soon

    When legitimate systems contradict legitimate people, authority must be recovered rather than merely secured.

  • Book Seven

    The Security Premium

    Coming soon

    Sovereign institutions must act together without surrendering the control they are responsible for protecting.

These are novels, not textbooks.

Each book places a management idea inside a consequential decision. The characters must choose before they have complete information, and somebody must carry the cost when the choice is wrong.

Reader resources

Coming soon for registered readers

  • Platform Playbook
  • Industry Playbook
  • Discussion guides
  • Board questions
  • Selected extracts
  • Audiobook samples
  • Author notes
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About the author

Richard Åstrand

Richard Åstrand is a technology and strategy executive who writes about how companies, boards and investors use technology to change the allocation of value and responsibility. The Premium Book Series uses fiction to test ideas that often appear simpler in a presentation than they become in practice.

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