Misc. on Inherent Vice sales

[Mark Kohut]

> St. Mark's has sold out and
> re-ordered twice; cites the Kakutani review as driving
> sales
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> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 1:03 PM,
> Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
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> As John Carville and others have lamented here, Penguin
> doesn't seem to do
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> much to "market" Pynchon, a hard-enough project
> given some of the author's
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> beliefs about his privacy.
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> Part of what Pynchon is about, as we know, is a
> self-organizing 'anarchism' alternative outside the
> official communication system.
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> He has given his voice to a cool promotional video which
> Penguin has done
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> for this book---the official horn, so to speak---but what
> is to happen to it beyond us sending it to each other?
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> Idea: Whyn't we all try to make it reach hundreds of
> thousands, nay, is a million possible? If we core readers
> sent that video to scores of others we know asking them to
> send it to many they knew, we all know how the math works on
> "compound interest", as I just now register the
> pun on "interest"; A--and, if we know many,as we
> all do, who don't know or give a twit about Thomas
> Pynchon, we might just tell them it is a cool video aobut
> the sixties and frame it with words like "as if
> narrated by the Dude, a bit older, from The Big
> Lebowski"--or whatever we want to say--
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> continuing that this novel has already been called The
> Bigger Lebowski...or suchlike.
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> Goal might be a the hugest number of hits on the Penguin
> promo video we can get, NOT ever asking anyone to buy a
> copy, although some should sell if enough get it, of course.
> We will overload the Maxwell's Demon, produce
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> an at least temporary overcoming of publishing entropy, put
> Pynchon's voice
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> into the ears of many; many who do not even know who he is,
> but also maybe creating some new readers for TRP, Mealnie
> and Jackson. Maybe helping TRP hit bestseller lists,  not
> done since 'Gravity's Rainbow"?
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> Think on it: our very own 'anarchist miracle', so
> to allude?!
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> Anyway, I am. My email will link to the video via a doc
> that says something
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> like "Pynchon Speaks! Pynchon, Reading. You know you
> want to know what his voice sounds like and this is the
> closest we will get to a public book reading."  And, a
> second to non-book friends telling them as above re The Dude
> and, maybe that it is an effort at maximizing views of a
> cool book video about the sixties...
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> We can get news stories, I bet, if we get them million+
> Penguin hits!
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