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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.
Additional coverage:
- Los Angeles Times
- The New York Times (may be pay-walled)
- 9News
- The Washington Post (owned by the founder of amazon.com)
- The Guardian
- The Man Who Invented the Science Fiction Paperback
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(Score: 2) by ilsa on Thursday January 26 2017, @05:58PM
Previous administrations may have been heading in that direction, but they had been doing it subtly.
Trump is about as subtle as a sledgehammer to the face, and so suddenly people are starting to wake up. Of course, as usual, this comes too late. Kinda like the Brexit voters googling what it even means to leave the EU only after they voted to do so.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday January 26 2017, @07:12PM
I am not convinced that the ensembles "the people reading 1984" and "the people who voted for Trump" intersect a lot.
(Score: 2) by ilsa on Thursday January 26 2017, @08:32PM
Well, no. The analogy wasn't a perfect one-to-one. I was more aiming for everyone going, "Oh shit something's happening! I better find out what!" after said something has already happened.
(Score: 1) by butthurt on Friday January 27 2017, @01:51AM
Google doesn't know how, or whether, someone voted. Some of those searches could have been done by Remain voters or people who didn't go to the polls. Your point stands though.