If there is one thing we have in common, though, it is that our spending power has decreased vastly, i.e. our money buys us a lot less than it did before the kreppa, due to the currency devaluation, inflation, etc.

As for publishers, yes I have tried, and I’m loath to describe my experiences with the publishing industry, because that’s just what it is, an industry. You don’t even get close to a publisher without an agent, and getting an agent is about as hard as getting a publisher. However, at the start of the kreppa about a year ago, I did happen to get close to two publishers, and they were very dismissive of any sort of kreppa book idea — they seemed to think that it would garner limited interest outside out of Iceland. In fact, I happen to have a couple of responses right here:

“I have absolutely no doubt there is a place for the discussion, but I think blogging is probably the way forward.”

And:

“I am afraid we wouldn’t be the right people for this and I think that outside of Iceland people will be more interested in reading a long magazine article of the kind that the New Yorker includes than a whole book. A book will also be competing with a rash of “instant” books on the global financial crisis that are being written and will be covering a broader canvas.”

Nuff said.

I seriously think you could be just the person to write a book about the affect of the collapse on the Icelandic public – have you tried getting a UK / US publisher?

My favourite scene is the very last with an interview of JÁJ, where he is still proud of his deals, claiming he had done most things right with the exception, perhaps, of being a tad hubristic.

Maybe we could do a two way trade between Iceland and Ireland where we buy your “Meltdown” books and You could buy our “Dead Celtic Tiger” books and thereby pull both countries out of the slump !!

The “God Bless Iceland” film looks interesting. I found a trailer with English subtitles, but no idea if there’s a subtitled DVD:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v43mCWiXRg