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Brisk Sales for "1984"

posted by Fnord666 on Thursday January 26 2017, @04:17PM   Printer-friendly
from the buy-used-and-pay-cash dept.

butthurt writes:

CNN Money reports:

The book publisher Penguin is printing more copies of George Orwell's dystopian classic "1984" in response to a sudden surge of demand.

On Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning the book was #1 on Amazon's computer-generated list of best-selling books.

[...] "We put through a 75,000 copy reprint this week. That is a substantial reprint and larger than our typical reprint for '1984,'" a Penguin spokesman told CNNMoney Tuesday evening.

[...] According to Nielsen BookScan, which measures most but not all book sales in the United States, "1984" sold 47,000 copies in print since Election Day in November. That is up from 36,000 copies over the same period the prior year.

When the submitter visited amazon.com, the book was ranked #3.

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by zugedneb on Thursday January 26 2017, @04:44PM

    by zugedneb (4556) on Thursday January 26 2017, @04:44PM (#458987)

    we should be happy for teh technologycal advances and look forward to brighter future, even if we are not alive then...

    but instead there is this strange sliding...

    people seem to be in worse mood for every new day...

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Phoenix666 on Thursday January 26 2017, @04:55PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday January 26 2017, @04:55PM (#458996) Journal

    people seem to be in worse mood for every new day...

    They're being incited by a media run by the Establishment, who seem to think that if they can drive the proles to fighting each other to collapse they can blithely skip off to private islands and bunkers and never worry that the chickens will come home to roost.

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    • (Score: 1) by zugedneb on Thursday January 26 2017, @05:18PM

      by zugedneb (4556) on Thursday January 26 2017, @05:18PM (#459007)

      yes...
      i have been modded troll for statements with similar content though.
      especially in connection to the owners of a lot of the media.

      but then a gain, who am i to troll(lol)...

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by DannyB on Thursday January 26 2017, @06:14PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday January 26 2017, @06:14PM (#459030) Journal
    We should be happy with techno-illogical advances like:
    • Telescreens -- aka Smart TVs. Some now equipped with cameras and mics to enable video conferencing
    • Alexa / OK Google -- devices always listening. The Amazon Echo even has a privacy button to notify Amazon that you're about to discuss something especially interesting.
    • Mobile tracking devices with cameras and microphones that we all willingly carry around on our bodies.
    • The NSA vacuuming up everything about our lives in case they ever want to use it to manufacture a case

    We are already living in a dystopia.

    • Police departments that are more frightening than the criminals.
    • Legalized highway robbery under the color of "asset forfeiture"
    • A clown president that is thin skinned, petty and revengeful, must humiliate his 'enemies' not merely defeat them, has no problems with brazenly lying to the media, beginning official investigations of his fantasies, and I could go on and on. Point being, given how he's already treated some people, can you imagine how this guy will use the state tools against people who tweet the wrong thing?
    • Already a new "ministry of truth" clampdown on the government releasing mere facts.
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    • (Score: 1) by zugedneb on Thursday January 26 2017, @07:07PM

      by zugedneb (4556) on Thursday January 26 2017, @07:07PM (#459062)

      that shuld be the background noise.
      we should be happy whith the knowledge that give that shit.

      as example Google Earth has made me a better man.
      playing mobas and mmo has made me a better man.
      the advances in transportation made me more happy.
      the advances in robotics made me more happy, though somewhat worried for the unrest that comes woth loss of jobs.
      the advances in medicine made me more happy.
      the advances in kosmology adn astronomy made me more happy.

      wtf guys, there is more in the workd thatn the deeds of humans.

      stagnation is not solely the fault of the government.
      stagnation need soil to grow in, and that dystopian soil i in your heads.

      maybe, dystopia is neede, since evolution eliminated all the overly happy people, blinded by their joy, so to speak...
      but there is a limit?

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 26 2017, @07:14PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 26 2017, @07:14PM (#459066)

      Check zugnub's posting history.
      He's literally a nazi.