ATD - Sales

[kelber at mindspring.com]

There's still the occassional oddball who purchases a book by walking into a bookstore.

-----Original Message-----
>From: pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Oct 13, 2006 2:20 PM
>To: Pynchon-L <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: ATD - Sales
>
>I still say the marketers are doing a pretty good job
>if they're actually selling a product that's not even
>available yet, and I don't mean that sarcastically,
>just to be completely clear.
>
>When you consider the remaining 3 or 4 million books
>or however many it is that sit below Against the Day
>in the Amazon sales ranking, most of which will do
>well to sell one copy for each member of the author's
>family, ATD's sales ranking is impressive, and I
>credit first of all, dedicated pynchonoids everywhere
>for buying their man's book and, second, the publisher
>for investing the funds and other resources necessary
>to make Pynchon's book available, and, finally, the
>Marketing Staff, for getting folks like Mr. Carvill to
>do their job for them and thus generating buzz and
>book sales.
>
>>no need, as Al Gore 
>> would say, to get snippy about it.
>> 
>[snip]
>
>
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