Misc. on Inherent Vice sales

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

Mark, this only tangential to what you write, but if
memory serves, both VL and M&D did make it to the NYT
bestseller list. VL was something like 3rd, M&D 6th,
I think.


Heikki

On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Mark Kohut wrote:

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> > 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--
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> > an at least temporary overcoming of publishing entropy, put
> > Pynchon's voice
> >
> > 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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