More on the blurb brouhaha

[jbor at bigpond.com]

Here's the direct link to that first Boston Globe piece describing the  
"nearly unheard of" goings-on at Amazon.com last week:

http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2006/07/spanning_the_pe.html

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On 26/07/2006:

> http://www.nysun.com/article/36573
>
> http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2006/07/pynchon_on_the_1.html
> (N.B. the speculations on the title there)
>
> http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/index.rdf
> (scroll down)
>
> http://thephoenix.com/wordup/
> (some doozies there, e.g., "the internerd's crazy Pynchon cult")
>
> http://www.gawker.com/news/amazon/thomas-pynchon-viral-mastermind 
> -188695.php
>
> http://freecelebritynews.com/a-new-day-for-thomas-pynchon-fans/
>
> And that Associated Press story is literally everywhere:
>
> http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=49568
>
> Sure smacks of a marketing strategy to me.
>
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