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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: 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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