In Which Mason & DIxon leads............and price-fixing is legal....

[Mark Kohut]

How Germany Keeps Amazon at Bay and Literary Culture Alive
The Nation.
The CEO, for his part, was hoping to sell lots of copies of Thomas
Pynchon's Mason & Dixon, as he'd just learned from the happy
salespeople at Henry Holt that the bookseller was set to display at
least 20000 copies of that marvelous tome in stores ...
 
 
MK: 
Naumann oversold and overprinted Mason & Dixon. B & N did not need near 20,000.
 
Where inside a sister company I learned of the move of the On-Sale date very late in the process---most unusual---
by two weeks---to have M & D land on the anniversary of Richard Farina's death. 
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