More on the blurb brouhaha

[jd]

Also, now I really want to find some Turkish movies to watch.

On 7/25/06, jd <wescac at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well I think you need to keep in mind that the book news world
> generally is obligated to keep up with this stuff...  sure, releasing
> a blurb on Amazon is marketing.  Thing is, it's marketing that leaked
> early.  The only difference is instead of all these articles coming
> out next week (and really, when the book is coming out in December
> it's not like the publishers want / need to get a week's head start)
> they're coming out now.  Is the blurb marketing?  Of course!  Is the
> blurb coming out a week too soon marketing?  Highly doubtful.  You can
> read anything into anything though - releasing a blurb and having the
> news reporting about it for a week, and just as the stories about that
> would start to die off release the title and as a result get a longer
> stay in ther papers, might be seen as a shrewd marketing device.  But
> the very fact that it was taken down, to me, says that there was no
> marketing behind it and that it was, simply, a leak.  If it wasn't it
> would have stayed up - and in fact, I wouldn't be surprised is Penguin
> was a little peeved about it and perhaps released the title sooner
> than they had wanted to because of it.
>
> On 7/25/06, Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > What I wanna know is, given, e.g., ...
> >
> > http://www.thewavemag.com/pagegen.php?pagename=article&articleid=22646
> >
> > http://www.thewavemag.com/pagegen.php?pagename=article&articleid=22122
> >
> > What would, say, Turkish Gravity's Rainbow or Turkish
> > Crying of Lot 49 or Turkish Mason & Dixon entail?
> >
> > --- John Carvill <JCarvill at algsoftware.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=49568
> > >
> > > you've really hit the jackpot in publicity terms
> > > when you make the Turkish Daily News!
> >
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