More on the blurb brouhaha

[jbor at bigpond.com]

Amazon.com Sales Rank: #520 in Books (See Top Sellers in Books)
Yesterday: #358 in Books

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/159420120X/104-7500103-6702349? 
redirect=true

Not bad for a novel that isn't even published yet.

And the best bit? That "reluctantly" describing Tracy Locke's  
confirmation in the AP article:

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

Ladies and gentlemen, the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress goes to ...

best

On 26/07/2006, at 1:13 AM:

> http://www.boston.com/ae/books/blog/2006/07/pynchon_on_the_1.html

> As of 1 p.m. Friday, the sales  of the December novel are already  
> going great guns - "Against the Day," as the 992-page tome is  
> apparently called, was number 643 on the Amazon tally. (Given that  
> your basic obscure novel can ring in somewhere in the high six digits,  
> anything below 1,000 for a book still six months away from publication  
> is incredible.)