Against the Day title confirmed on Amazon

[jd]

"Heh heh. I strongly doubt there is any cloak and dagger intentions -- it's
just typical Publishing in action."

Exactly.  Beyond what you say above, Amazon is not Penguin, they have
a lot of books to deal with.  They don't care if it's the new Pynchon
or the new Dean Koontz, on their level it's pretty much just data.  I
imagine some drone got the blurb and immediately posted it without any
knowledge of who Pynchon was at all.  This isn't marketing, it's just
Amazon flopping around posting stuff as it comes to them and then
hurrying along to the next bit of data.

RE: the porky pig faces, I never heard that!  That's a pretty good
little factoid, but I do like the five squares more I think.  Has
there been much commentary on whether or not they actually represent
anything?  I remember hearing that there was some idea floating around
that they were like the edges of a strip of film, but I don't remember
where.  Then again, the Porky faces I don't think would have been
meant to be seriously analyzed (or he probably would have insisted on
their inclusion), so perhaps those squares don't merit it either.

On 7/25/06, The Great Quail <quail at libyrinth.com> wrote:
> > write the blurb, give it a title, release it in time for christmas but
> > there is no need for all this cloak and dagger chopping and changing of
> > the blurb, the title etc
>
> Heh heh. I strongly doubt there is any cloak and dagger intentions -- it's
> just typical Publishing in action.
>
> Only because we have placed it under such intense scrutiny does this look
> strange or even frustrating.  To the rest of the world, a book to be
> released in five months has a few days of instability in terms of blurb and
> title on Amazon.com? No big deal, and certainly hardly the work of the
> author, who doesn't even work on a computer!
>
> I recently discussed this with a friend who works in publishing. Believe me,
> Penguin is more worried about "Will the 'New York Times' give the book a
> timely and favorable review" than "What does an Internet Group think about a
> week delay in announcing the title." Which also means, no advance review
> copies for Web sites other than (maybe) Slate and Salon! Sadly....
>
> --Quail
>
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