Shadow Ticket ARC?

[Mark Kohut]

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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