Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Thursday, November 10, 2005


The free market triumphs -- in LITERAHTEEYURE:

The secondary market for novels by deposed government staffers with an interest in bestiality appears to have peaked. Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s confirmed yesterday that it will reprint I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s 1996 novel, The Apprentice, with a paperback run of 25,000 copies. Books will ship Nov. 18 and will be in stores just in time for the gift-giving season.

The publisher said that the move was prompted by high consumer demand as well as the by recent media attention the book has received—most notably in a Nov. 7 “Talk of the Town” piece in the New Yorker that quoted a section in which a caged bear copulates with a ten-year-old girl. The newly printed Apprentice will carry its original cover and will make no reference to the Libby’s legal situation.


You don't suppose somebody, er, planted that, do you?

Meantime people who've tried to sell the book at Shakespeare First Folio prices aren't giving up:

While it seems unlikely that demand will increase in the wake of the reprint announcement, some sellers remain bullish. An independent bookseller, who had been offering a signed galley edition for $2,400 on Amazon, expressed optimism about finding a buyer, reprinted copies notwithstanding. In an email message sent Wednesday, the bookseller, who asked to remain anonymous, told The Book Standard, “I don't think that a new printing will have any impact on my own copy, except perhaps to heighten interest even further because my copy is unique.” The email continued, “I am somewhat ambivalent about selling it because I am a book and political history buff myself, and I wouldn't mind keeping it, even if it eventually drops significantly in value.” As late as Sunday morning, the seller had been able to find copies of the used book for under $20, according to the email.

Sounds to us as though SCOOTER should be found GUILTY of writing ANOTHER BAD BOOK.

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