Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:20:19 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: More of LeGuin on Earthsea TV
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> myeh at wap.org 12/17/04 9:08:32 AM >>>
>    I was only able to watch 40 minutes before giving up
>in disgust.   I can't imagine anyone reading the books
>after seeing the film.

The new trade pb, issued 9/04, sold the following numbers at Ingram:
Sept - 141
Oct -   102
Nov -  183

Mass market has these numbers:
Sept - 533
Oct -379
Nov -428
And there's this at the top of the page "Waiting for Publisher
Reprint".

Now, all of these numbers are orders from bookstores (independents,
chains, online).  What is actually sold is another matter.

Dec is still progress, so no numbers, but the demand is high.

>  Some of the changes were just
>gratuiously stupid.  The dialogue and plot was insipid at
>best.
>         Madeleine

The good news is that the books will probably be around longer than the
SciFi version.

mjw