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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 mcgrew on Thursday January 26 2017, @10:34PM
It's not the surveillance, it's the "alternative facts" that Orwell so presciently came up with; "Doublespeak".
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(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday January 27 2017, @12:13AM
I remember when you had to read it in school: now kids graduate without having read it... Cause they can't bloody read!!!
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Friday January 27 2017, @07:59PM
Well, it wasn;t required reading in my school in the 1960s. I read it because I'd enjoyed Animal Farm. Stopped reading it when I got to the part where rats were eating the guys's face.
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(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Friday January 27 2017, @03:58AM
I feel like "alternative facts" have been with us for decades, probably centuries. Although, presidential staff invoking them by name is a bit in-your-face.
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