July 15, 2013 |
Cuckoo's Calling, Instant Collectible?

According to the Times, Cuckoo's Calling had only sold about 1,500 copies in the UK before Rowling's secret was discovered by a reporter who was tipped off on Twitter. Now the book is flying off the shelves. A spokesman for Waterstones, one of England's biggest bookselling chains, told the Washington Post that they had only a handful of copies of The Cuckoo's Calling scattered around the country when the news broke, and they prompted sold out. Both Amazon and Barnesandnoble.com were out of stock by the end of the day. The New York Times reported that a second printing with an amended author biography has already been ordered, but it is surely the first printing that will be important to collectors.
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