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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: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 26 2017, @09:36PM
> Second, Obama demonstrated that he was going to be a duplicitous president back after he won the Democrat convention in 2008.
Wah! Obama wasn't 100% to your liking. So he's a total science-denying hypocrite.
We all know you love your climate change denialism like it was your mother's milk.
Its obvious you are more than happy to endorse EPA muzzling because it fits your agenda.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday January 27 2017, @06:25AM
Wah! Obama wasn't 100% to your liking. So he's a total science-denying hypocrite.
Backing mass surveillance of innocent people shouldn't be to your liking either.