Fwd: 6 is now 4: The Penguin in a Skirt and Moustache

[Markekohut]

Distribution was ..incredible.....as w M & D.....in-store display dumps....i bought mine from one
in Chicago on pub day.....back around NYC, i noticed it even at bus/train newsstands ........
...we might remember later, around the time I met that editor, that Amazon started selling them
as low as $7......had too many surely bought non-returnable since amazon always beieves it
can find an item's price.......

Sent from my iPad

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Prashant Kumar <siva.prashant.kumar at gmail.com>
> Date: April 11, 2013, 11:07:25 PM EDT
> To: Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>, pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Subject: Re: 6 is now 4: The Penguin in a Skirt and Moustache
> 
> "....another plugged-in editor, when i told him of my love of AtD, within a few months
> of publication, said, it will never meet its rumored advance (payment) in sales.....which were
> lighter than huge distribution hoped for........."
> 
> Are there reasons for this other than "it's a big book"? I remember a review written by someone who refused to read it due to its size...anyway I think length is misleading; AtD happens quickly.
> 
> P.
> On 12 April 2013 12:47, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Mostly agents and editor driven...Corliss Smith and Faith Sale...ole pal Kirkpatrick's wife...
>>  move to new agent, Ms Jackson.....he and head of Holt, Michael Nauman, had a working
>> relationship, I've heard....industry rumors since M & D, at least, is that he has no house editor 
>> as he did w Smith and Sale and Melanie must be his editor....seems Penguin has given her/him
>> the best deals....another plugged-in editor, when i told him of my love of AtD, within a few months
>> of publication, said, it will never meet its rumored advance (payment) in sales.....which were
>> lighter than huge distribution hoped for.........
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
>> 
>> On Apr 11, 2013, at 10:00 PM, bandwraith at aol.com wrote:
>> 
>>> In Order, Pynchon's publishers have been:
>>>  
>>> V.-  J.B. Lippincott
>>>  
>>> The Crying of Lot 49-  J.B. Lippincott
>>>  
>>> Gravity's Rainbow-  Viking
>>>  
>>> Slow Learner-  Little, Brown
>>>  
>>> Vineland-  Little, Brown
>>>  
>>> Mason & Dixon- Holt
>>>  
>>> Against theh Day- Penguin
>>>  
>>> Inherent Vice- Penguin
>>>  
>>> The Bleeding Edge- Penguin
>>>  
>>> It would seem, from the distant outside, that Pynchon's choice of publisher is driven mainly by economic concerns. Does anyone else have some more insider information about this?
>>>  
>>>  
>>>  
>>> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 22:20:50 +0100 (BST) 
>>> From: Matthew Cissell <macissell@[omitted]> 
>>> Subject: Re: 6 is now 4: The Penguin in a Skirt and Moustache 
>>> To: Markekohut <markekohut@[omitted]>, 
>>> 
>>>  In Al Siverman's "The Time of Their Lives" he quotes Katherine McNamara abo=
>>> ut a lunch her husband, Lee Goerner of Atheneum, had with Pynchon; at the e=
>>> nd of the lunch Pynchon said "Only publish good books". This and a number o=
>>> f other things go to show how TRP is not just a writer but someone invloved=
>>>  in the the republic of letters and, more specifically, that branch of prod=
>>> uction called publishing.=0A=0AThe fact that Penguin is being absorbed by B=
>>> ertelsmann (with that dark mid-20thc. past) can't have escaped the notice o=
>>> f the author that wrote that Intro for Orwell's 1984 in 2003.=0A=0AAnybody =
>>> willing to entertain the idea that the publishing world somehow gets worked=
>>>  in there?
> 
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