NP, learned while not trying...on Emerson's "Nature",

[Albert Rolls]

Moby Dick's sales figures were hampered by reviewers who read the British 
reviews, which discussed a book that had last minute changes tacked onto the 
end rather than placed where they belonged. Reviewers were confused and 
slammed the book. Corrections were made for the U.S edition but most 
reviewers failed to notice, rewording what had been written in the British 
press.  Long books and tight deadlines don't mix.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 10:26 PM
Subject: NP, learned while not trying...on Emerson's "Nature",


> his so-influential first book, the ommiscient eyeball of society image 
> lifted
> from it by TRP in Against the Day, free online now had a first printing
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> of 500 copies in 1836.....with a few still to sell in 1845 when the second
> printing was scheduled.
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> 500. 9 years. 55 a year. NOT a bestseller, not close.
> Moby Dick. 50 copies sold first year.
>
> Scarlet Letter, there was a bestseller. Sex always sells.
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