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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 ikanreed on Thursday January 26 2017, @09:03PM
Yeah, well, they had one primary on-the-ground intelligence source and it was an exiled dissident.
They had some satellite imagery that showed construction they couldn't explain.
Divorced of all other context, that's a kind of very weak evidence. Were it the the only evidence of any kind, positive or negative, it'd raise questions.
What made it completely and utterly shitty was that this weak evidence was used to override a team of chemical weapons experts, on the ground in the country, under third party direction, with substantial inspection permissions(though not as much as the Bush administration demanded) saying that it wasn't possible. And so in that, you can see the kind of selectivity that makes the former category pretty damn shitty.