From: "Strong, Lee" <strongl at sddc.army.mil>
To: "'wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com'" <wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com>,
    wsfalist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] RE: [wsfa-forum] So out of the mainstream
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 12:06:41 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

    "Who else on this planet is left [to read _The Da Vinci Code_]?"
"This planet" must not be Earth.  Earth has a planetary population of
roughly 6 billion people so 6 million copies in print means a readership of
1/10 of 1 percent.  I'm in the majority on this one.

-----Original Message-----
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Behalf Of Michael Walsh
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2006 10:46 AM
To: wsfalist at keithlynch.net; wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [WSFA] [wsfa-forum] So out of the mainstream

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