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Brisk Sales for "1984"
CNN Money reports: [cnn.com]
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. [...]
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"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.
When the submitter visited amazon.com [webcitation.org], the book was ranked #3.
additional coverage:
- Los Angeles Times [latimes.com]
- New York Times [nytimes.com] (may be pay-walled)
- 9News [9news.com.au]
- Washington Post [washingtonpost.com] (owned by the founder of amazon.com)
- The Guardian [theguardian.com]
- The Man Who Invented the Science Fiction Paperback [soylentnews.org]
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