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--- a/src/config.ts
+++ b/src/config.ts
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ export const siteConfig = {
   bookUrl: 'https://open-and-async.com/',
   bookTitle: 'Open & Async',
   bookDescription: 'The collaborative software development playbook for remote and distributed teams',
-  bookLaunch: 'July 2026',
+  bookLaunch: 'July 21, 2026',
 
   // About page metadata
   aboutDescription: 'Ben Balter is a writer, open source developer, and attorney whose open source projects have hundreds of millions of downloads. Formerly Director of Hubber Enablement at GitHub.',