Bleeding Edge

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Whatever bright ideas we come up with here, if they are on the money, he'll probably change it just to spite us. That would be right on the bleeding edge- keeping a nanosecond ahead of the target audience.



-----Original Message-----
From: Prashant Kumar <siva.prashant.kumar at gmail.com>
To: Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>; pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tue, Apr 9, 2013 10:14 pm
Subject: Re: Bleeding Edge


better idea! first scene then...


P.




On 10 April 2013 12:04, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:


Well, not "Stately, plump"....


I will take a bet that the opening scene will be (somehow) set against the sky...

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On Apr 9, 2013, at 9:51 PM, Prashant Kumar <siva.prashant.kumar at gmail.com> wrote:



I'm thinking we should start a pot. Any wagers as to, say, the first word anyone?


P.




On 10 April 2013 02:49, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

I suspect this change comes from a simple estimate of manuscript/file pages that have now been
Set to print. 16 pages is one signature or octavo. See Wikipedia if interested ( and I can't link easily)

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On Apr 9, 2013, at 12:26 PM, Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> On the Kindle page it still says 512 for the hard cover.   I suppose they haven't updated it yet.  I was thinking that because the Kindle versions are sometimes a few pages shorter due to the formatting and it might be something like that.   But it's probably not.   Could still be formatting issues, though.  Take out the blanks between each chapter,   reduce the margins,  decrease the font size …
>
> Also,  there are 161 days until BE actually hits the stands - a lot of things could change in that time.
>
> Bekah
> waiting,  waiting …
>
> On Apr 9, 2013, at 9:02 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> ...  the sixteen missing pages ...
>>
>> On 4/9/13, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> now 496 pgs from 512 according to amazon. suspect that'll keep on changing
>>> till due date
>










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