The Prez (ex-CNN)

[Doug Millison]

I'll stay out of the capitalism debate, and only note that I didn't mention
profits in my post. I said "HHolt and the bookstores want to sell as many
copies of M&D as possible, an honorable desire." You added the reference to
profits. Selling larger numbers of novels by Thomas Pynchon and thereby
increasing the number of people who have a chance to experience his art are
good things, in my opinion.

Cordially,
Doug

At 3:02 PM 6/10/97, Mike Weaver wrote:
>At 09:03 10/06/97 -0800, Doug Millison wrote:
>>Are you suggesting that TRP would be better advised to seek a smaller
>>readership for his books and limit the number of copies printed and sold?
>Was limited, to 175,000
>The decision to go for a large  initial run  necessitated the level of
>promotion.  An alternative would have been reprinting on demand.  With all
>the guff about M&D as fashion accessory,  the question of maximising his
>readership, as opposed to number of possessors of the tome is not
>straightforward methinks.
>Anyway i was commenting on your connection of honourable and profits
>I'm glad they've sold out, more dosh to keep our man alive and writing.
>
>Cioafanow
>
>Mike
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