Could we please put our phones down?
We could. We won't. Here's why.
by Anna Hewitt
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Pub Date 12 Jun 2026 | Archive Date 15 Dec 2026
Stephan van Elderen | Mullion Wallace Press
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Description
On the 9th of January 2007, Steve Jobs held up a small black rectangle and called it a revolution. Anna Hewitt thought: how nice, an iPod you can also use to make calls.
Like most of us, she didn't understand what she was looking at. But eighteen months later she had one herself, and a year after that she couldn't quite remember how she'd managed without it. And at a moment she still cannot identify, it ended up on the table.
Could we please put our phones down? is not about technology. It is about what happened next. About how a device that began as a solution quietly became something we invited in freely and now cannot quite ask to leave. About its impact on family life, healthcare and politics. About what she has tried, and what she has to show for it.
Anna Hewitt writes about something almost everyone recognises and almost no one says out loud. With the sharpness of a good journalist, the warmth of someone who is fully in it herself, and the honesty of someone whose phone is, even now, on the table.
Marketing Plan
Could we please put our phones down? launches with a coordinated international campaign across India, the US/Canada, and the UK/Ireland, running in parallel. The book speaks to a conversation now underway worldwide, including school phone bans across Europe and Australia, growing debate over social media and adolescent wellbeing, and India's 2026 Economic Survey flagging digital addiction as a national health concern. The book is available in ebook and paperback through Amazon KDP, Kobo, Ingram Spark, and Draft2Digital, with global paperback distribution via Ingram. Outreach spans trade reviewers and library and institutional networks across all three regions, covering thousands of institutions: India's DELNET and INFLIBNET, public library systems and consortia in the US/Canada, and CILIP and public library networks in the UK/Ireland, alongside readers of comparable titles such as Stolen Focus, Digital Minimalism, and The Anxious Generation. The book is made available for review and consideration to all interested book professionals, and library and institutional acquisition is the primary long-term growth channel across all markets.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9789083727905 |
| PRICE | $8.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 210 |