It's Finally Here ... "Mr. Bukowski's Wild Ride"

[CarversDog]

No free copies for lawyers on this end; they want 'em, they buy 'em. I would say that I'm not concerned but this online saturation that happens with ISBN is insane so it may track on Martin's radar sometime soon. The book is available all over the damn place if you do a search for it by ISBN. It cracks me up when some online vendor says "In Stock, Available for Immediate Shipping." Bullshit. It's a POD book and cannot be produced until the order is placed. It's a freakin' shell game; everyone claims to have the book in stock (and at wildly inflated prices -- I mean, $58.97 in Germany? C'mon) and the actual book is sitting in a computer in North Carolina.

 

[Rekrab]

Martin paid for all the copies, but he did mention lawyers (he may not have said the copies were for the lawyers -- that could be me remembering it the most dramatic way possible).

I like that "in stock, available for immediate shipping." Maybe they should add "slightly shelf worn due to our customers having handled it" or "signed by the author and inscribed personally to you!"

 

[mjp]

Martin always made sure he got copies of "suppressed" items for his own collection. That's one of the benefits of being king, I suppose.

 

[CarversDog]

Is that the literary equivalent of impaling the heads of your enemies on a pole or something?

 

[mjp]

I think it's the literary equivalent of hypocrisy.

"This is not of sufficient quality for people to see! This is unauthorized! I'll take five copies, please. But the rest must be destroyed!"

 

[CarversDog]

Well, sounds like he is trying to corner the market on (what he determines to be) unathorized Bukowski ephemera which, I dare to say, puts him somewhere on the evolutionary scale with bottom feeders. His imprint -- literally and figuratively -- on Bukowski's literary legacy is solid. There's no need for him to act as self-appointed executor of the estate.

 

[CarversDog]

Thanks to Harry Calhoun for his nice nod to "Wild Ride" at his new Ten Dollar Tastings column.

 

[Gerard K H Love]

Bukowski's Wild Ride gets a nice write up. Good job you all.

Self publishing review Says some nice things about the book.

 

[CarversDog]

We are very pleased with that review, Kurt, very pleased indeed. I don't think we can aspire to anything better'n that, although we have picked up a number of requests for review copies in the last few weeks so we'll see; thanks for the nod.