Amazon Sales Rank: "A Better Pencil" outsold by a book on tattoos

RonButters at AOL.COM RonButters at AOL.COM
Thu Sep 24 23:00:15 UTC 2009


Whoever said you have to be a chicken to make a homolette?

In a message dated 9/24/09 4:38:53 PM, wordseditor at WORLDWIDEWORDS.ORG
writes:


> > My book "A Better Pencil" came out this month from Oxford University
> > Press. It's not my first book, but it's the first one I've published
> > since the internet went viral. Because my book is about the impact of
> > computers and the 'Net on how we read and write, I checked the World
> > Wide Web to see how the book was doing.
>
> It could be much worse. Amazon.co.uk claims I wrote "Wirklich ungeheuer
> praktisch. Lesbische Lach- und Sachgeschichten", which is a book of
> stories
> about the everyday life of lesbians in Germany.
>
>
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>
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> Michael Quinion
> Editor, World Wide Words
> E-mail: wordseditor at worldwidewords.org
> Web: http://www.worldwidewords.org
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