Shadow Ticket ARC?

[rich]

figured you'd know the publishing behind the scenes, Mark.

On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 2:18 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> First, it is almost certain that the Penguin edition listed is NOT Large
> Print....Large Print editions are as good as always
> a separate publication. Usually the rights were sold to a LP company to do
> the book, major separate distribution channels.
> If the Penguin Monolith now does their own LP, it would not be a job with
> known form yet....
>
> Second. Major review media NEED (AtD was the unfortunate exception, as we
> know) advance copies or readers' copies 3-4 months
> before pub day........that means sometime in June....I got an Advance
> paper copy of an early September book earlier this month...(jill Lepore)
>
> I think that the recent firming up of the pagination means they have gone
> to press with those.....
>
> The first pagination listed was likely a guesstimate--almost always a high
> side estimate based on manuscript pages and font and other uncertainties.
> Judgments. and decisions. Look at all the shapes Against the Day could
> have been.
>
> TRP was doing editing and shaping (and cutting? and rearranging, maybe) on
> what he had turned in.
>
> You will notice that each lesser amount, each number of pages listed, is
> divisible by 16. Called a signature it is how the innards of a book are put
> together.
>
> Seven signatures lost from first listing but it could be simply adjustment
> to the guessed size --OR yes, something dramatically cut. Or from slightly
> larger
> to Inherent Vice normal mystery size.
>
> YET, they might still hold off mailing galleys or reviewers' copies for
> other reasons too but not usually. In this case, given it is Pynchon and
> probably his last,
> they might have a carefully controlled, supervised numbered list of where
> each copy goes.....they could be flipped for Who Knows How Much....They
> stopped doing
> excess Stephen King galleys when they were selling for $1200 in the late
> eighties or so....
>
> Mark
>
> Mark
>
> On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> yes, alas. pg count went from 384 to what is now on Penguin's website:
>> 288.
>> PenguinUK states 432, but I wonder if that's Large Print version. Change
>> in
>> font size, margins, who knows but 96 pgs suggests some cutting
>>
>> rich
>>
>> On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 12:28 PM Laura Kelber <laurakelber at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > I missed the info about the decreased page length. Not a doorstopper,
>> > then?
>> >
>> > On Fri, May 30, 2025, 12:24 PM rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Howdy
>> >>
>> >> anybody guess when advanced reading copies will be sent for Shadow
>> Ticket?
>> >> with the decrease in stated page length, maybe closer to the time of
>> >> publication?
>> >>
>> >> rich
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