Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 10:45:33 -0400 From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu> To: <wsfalist at keithlynch.net>, <wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com> Subject: [WSFA] So out of the mainstream Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> from one of the book industry newsletters: "Unborn babies must be reading Da Vinci. Who else on this planet is left?"--Larry Kirshbaum, literary agent, in an AP story via the Globe and Mail, about the paperback sales of The Da Vinci Code. (The publisher reports that more than 500,000 copies of the book sold in its first week of paperback release, and now six million copies are in print.) Not only do I not have a blog, nor do I watched "reality" tv, it seems I'm even more out of the mainstream... mjw