Shadow Ticket ARC?

[Mark Kohut]

"Or from slightly larger
to Inherent Vice normal mystery size. "

This was ass-backwards from me....It would, of course, be fewer pages if
the book were larger with more words on a page....

Mark


On Sun, Jun 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>>> >>
>>> >
>>> --
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>>>
>>