ATD: marketing, ARCs

[jbor at bigpond.com]

I think the pynchon-l definitely did play a role. I also suspect that 
the son's MySpace entry was first discovered here, and then it got 
turned into a larger story elsewhere subsequently. Lurkers or 
forwarded, either way.

The Wikipedia entry and the Amazon Customer Discussions played their 
part as well, however unwittingly, in generating the on-line buzz which 
quite quickly spread further afield into print outlets through the AP 
article.

No offence to anyone intended, but it strikes me as naive to assume 
that there was no budget set aside for marketing and publicity for AtD, 
or that there is no one looking out for the book's or the author's 
interests. It was, after all, very much the crowning jewel in Penguin's 
Fall Publisher's Catalogue.

best
rob j

On 14/10/2006, at 12:31 AM, pynchonoid wrote:

>
>
> --- Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I personally give US all the credit ...
>
>
> Credit to Pynchon's publisher as well, they seem to
> have been counting on Pynchon-l and other online
> groups to help spread the word of the new novel, Book
> Description, publication date
>
>
>>
>
>>> --- jbor at bigpond.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> The pre-publication marketing for AtD has been
>>>> very successful [...]
>>>
>> --- pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> very
> generously and in a most kindly fashion responded:
>>> What a pleasure it is to see we agree....
>>
>
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