IV print run

[Mark Kohut]

Announced print runs are usually at least twice the actual print runs. 
I do not know the actual print run of Inherent vice (yet). I do know that it is in a second printing, not true of AtD.

--- On Tue, 8/18/09, Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com>
> Subject: IV print run
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Tuesday, August 18, 2009, 3:15 AM
> 
> One bookseller says of IV:
>  
> "The 150,000 initial printing should be enough to keep
> Pynchon in 
> Pall Malls and sardines for another year or two."
>  
> http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=1384704626&searchurl=isbn%3D9781594202247
> 
> I haven't seen this information anywhere else. Can anyone
> confirm 
> whether the number is correct - perhaps someone with a
> review copy/
> press release? The stated print runs for AtD and M&D
> were 250,000 
> and 175,000 copies, respectively. Of course, actual print
> runs may 
> be entirely another matter, since it seems publishers are
> in the
> habit of artificially inflating their print run
> announcements:
>  
> http://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/200908a.htm#nj2
>  
>  
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