On recent publishing strategies,with a little blowhard history and some airy speculation

[Albert Rolls]

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>From: Albert Rolls <alprolls at earthlink.net>
>Sent: Feb 13, 2011 6:20 AM
>To: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
>Subject: Re: On recent publishing strategies,with a little blowhard history and some airy speculation
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>April 30 is the on sale date for M&D on the letter included with the advanced reading copy. Where does the info about the change of fdate come from?
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>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
>>Sent: Feb 13, 2011 5:55 AM
>>To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>>Subject: Re: On recent publishing strategies,with a little blowhard history and some airy speculation
>>
>>> 6) the on-sale date for "Mason & Dixon" was changed at the last publishing
>>> minute, so to speak.
>>> Very unusual. Changed from April 14, I believe, to April 28. Years later I
>>> learned that April 28th
>>> was Richard Farina's birthday---or the day he died, can't remember because I can
>>> always look it up.
>>>
>>
>>I couldn't find the on-sale date for M&D in the time (I) allotted. But...
>>
>>Richard Fariña
>>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
>>  (Redirected from Richard Farina)
>>
>>Richard George Fariña (March 8, 1937 – April 30, 1966) was an American
>>writer and folksinger. He was a figure in both the counterculture
>>scene of the early- to mid-sixties and the budding folk rock scene of
>>the same era.
>>
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