Novel Title & Etc.

[jbor at bigpond.com]

I wonder how long it had been up there for before you came across it?  
Not long, I'd guess. It's interesting that the Amazon folks took it  
down again so quickly after you noticed it first and then posted it  
through here. Wonder who alerted them? And why they took it down? Some  
drone at Amazon or Penguin jumped the gun? A sneaky marketing ploy all  
along? Or just the usual shabbily-clothed shenanigans?

Here's what some of the other blogs are saying, by the way. News sure  
travels fast:

http://www.thevalve.org/go/valve/article/untitled_thomas_pynchon/

http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/index.php?/weblog/ 
let_the_reader_beware/

http://toddius.livejournal.com/

best

On 18/07/2006:

> thanks, jbor, i just was lucky to come across it because i purchase  
> many used & collectible books from amazon's marketplace; i'm sure  
> amazon slipped up and posted the book description earlier than  
> intended (what publisher would describe a book to the general public  
> before giving it a proper, or even invented or temporary title?  er,  
> other than the next harry potter book coming out soon, i mean?)
>
> Jeremy Rice <no speul cec, agin>
>
> -
>
>>> I guess we'll see, and I could be wrong and you and Paul could be  
>>> right.
>>
>> And Jeremy, of course, too, to whom credit and thanks are due for
>> initially alerting us to the blurb's apparition.