TRP's (Editorial) Description - back up on Amazon

[jbor at bigpond.com]

On 22/07/2006:

> This from Publishers Lunch a few minutes ago:
>
> Vrai Pynchon
> The description of Thomas Pynchon's forthcoming novel AGAINST THE DAY 
> referred to in Slate yesterday, pulled down from Amazon's official 
> product page but preserved by a site visitor on Amazon's discussion 
> board, is indeed by the author, confirmed by Tracy Locke at Penguin 
> Press.
>
> Locke adds that the Slate piece incorrectly claimed she "disavowed all 
> knowledge" of the post. "I explained to Troy Patterson that I was 
> unaware that any sort of book description had been posted on Amazon 
> and that I'd not seen it -- and therefore could not comment on its 
> accuracy."
>
> Amazon's Sean Sundwall tells the AP it was Penguin that asked for the 
> posting to be withdrawn, "due to a late change in scheduling on their 
> part."
>
> Don Corathers

Yes, reported also in the Associated Press article:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060720/ap_en_ot/books_thomas_pynchon_1

"Change of scheduling?" Such as ... what? They wanted the blurb to go 
up on a Thursday? It doesn't sound like Amazon.com was at fault at all.

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