Publishers Lunch
Little Brown UK told
The Bookseller that "Robert Galbraith's" THE CUCKOO'S CALLING
had sold 1,400 print copies and 800 ebooks domestically, plus 2,000 export
copies and 3,800 audio downloads. (That compares to under 500 hardcovers in the
US.) The UK publisher is reprinting 140,000 copies.
Rowling's spokesperson felt compelled to
formally deny involvement in the Sunday Times revelation, saying "it was
not a leak or elaborate marketing campaign to boost sales." Little Brown
UK added their own denial, in almost the same words, saying it "was not a
leak or part of a marketing campaign."
As for other big bestsellers, Sony announced
that they are skipping past long-simmering plans to adapt Dan Brown's THE LOST
SYMBOL and will instead produce a movie version of INFERNO, for a
December 2015 release, again starring Tom Hanks as Robert Langdon.
Before that, however, Fox Searchlight has
picked up Cheryl Strayed's WILD,
optioned previously by Reese Witherspoon's company, and plans fall production
based on a Nick Hornby script.
Also, the
NYT gets a very early copy of former New York mayor David Dinkins'
September memoir, A
MAYOR'S LIFE. Dinkins says his election defeat in 1993
"was just racism, pure and simple." He calls his successor Rudy
Giuliani "a cold, unkind person" who followed "the politics of
boundless ambition without the guidance of a set of core beliefs or the
humility and restraint of experience."
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