Text of COL49

[Thomas Beshear]

As recently as the late 1990s, I saw stripped paperbacks for sale in some 
used bookstores -- the low-end type of used paperback/CD shops that skirted 
close to the edge of oblivion and usually ended up tipping into it.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: "Carvill, John" <john.carvill at sap.com>
Cc: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 12:19 PM
Subject: Re: Text of COL49


BANTAM, BANTAM!....they did the paperback.........I remember the big 
industry
push to

eliminate stripped-cover book 
sales.............................................

stores where, when I grew up working class poor in Pittsburgh, I bought many
'naked' paperbacks for a dime
and a quarter......BEFORE I even knew THAT was illegal.....(I was
stupid)............................................





----- Original Message ----
From: "Carvill, John" <john.carvill at sap.com>
To: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>; "pynchon-l at waste.org"
<pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wed, September 1, 2010 9:16:43 AM
Subject: RE: Text of COL49

> my first copy was retrieved, stripped of its cover, from the trashcan of 
> Campus
>Texbook Exchange in 1979

Thief! I'm reporting you to a Harper exec.