Six months until Company
There’s a
new Company cover!
And it’s… remarkably similar to
the old one.
In fact, all Doubleday did is go down to the
staff cafeteria, buy a donut, photograph it, and whack it
on the cover in place of the stock photo. Unless you look
closely, it’s the same cover. If you do look closely,
you might notice that Doubleday’s donut is a little soggier,
but that’s about it.
I am not quite clear on why changing one donut for another, near-identical donut, helps anybody, but apparently it’s something to do with image rights. Although that begs the question why in the first place… no, no, that way lies madness.
I also have an on-sale date, at least for the US and Canada: January 17, 2006! It’ll be a hardcover with a RRP of US$22.95, although I see Amazon.com will already let you pre-order for US$15.61. What nice people.
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John Howard (#1482)
Location: Jacksonville, FL
Posted: 7230 days ago
Yenzo (#829)
Location: Secret underwater pyramid base in the Pacific
Quote: "In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe (Carl Sagan)"
Posted: 7230 days ago
2nd: Why oh why can't I pre-order it on the German Amazon page? I got five more days left in the wonderful paradise of Massachusetts until I'm going back into the bloody hellhole that spat me out, where I CAN'T PREORDER COMPANY!!!
I'm gonna go to bed now... too much frustration for one moment.
Justin Holt (#147)
Location: Rochester, NY
Quote: "www.justinholt.net"
Posted: 7230 days ago
Cannot wait for Company. It's been a while since I read a good book...
Aaron Doucet (#733)
Location: Canada (Sorry)
Quote: "He'd never seen so many expensive pairs of shoes in one place."
Posted: 7230 days ago
Rod McBride (#688)
Location: Gardner, KS
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Posted: 7230 days ago
The kind of change you're showing could be made in dot-gain when printing.
BTW, I love hardcovers, especially if they have good art. I spent extra on eBay to get 'Syrup' as a first edtion hardback because I loved that cover. The trade cover sucks IMHO. I'll definitely be pre-ordering 'Company' to get it before the graphic abortionists of the publishing industry turn on it.
A friend just went me 'We Need To Talk About Kevin,' and he specifically sent it throught he U.K. publisher to spare me the U.S. cover which he thought was awful.
Jayavarman (#1036)
Location: Connecticut
Posted: 7230 days ago
January 17 is quite late. People fresh with new Christmas presents of gift certificates for book stores will be out two weeks earlier.
Uncle Wiggles (#1091)
Location: Vancouver, BC
Quote: "In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry, and is generally considered to have been a bad move."
Posted: 7230 days ago
Cant wait for it to come out, I just sent my library a "Suggested Purchase" so I can keep my booze money. :D
Location: Hobart
Posted: 7230 days ago
I'm glad it is in the first month of the year rather than the 6th!
Jan is good news i reckon.
Luckdragon (#1116)
Location: Connecticut, USA
Quote: "Totally addicted to the online, all the time, never gonna go outside."
Posted: 7230 days ago
I too hate hardcovers, at least in books that aren't gigantamongous. It'll look so out of place next to my copies of J. Gov. and Syrup.
Morzaria (#463)
Location: Bangalore, India, well, most of the time atleast...
Quote: "We are gonna run run run to the cities of the future.."
Posted: 7230 days ago
Tim Ashwood (#595)
Location: Sydney
Posted: 7230 days ago
Not saying it IS, just that it looks like it in comparison to the last cover.
Jake (#1479)
Location: In front of the computer
Quote: "Here's two herring and a squirrel: Amuse us!"
Posted: 7230 days ago
But, hey, this is just the ranting of some kid whose's stayed up way too late, way too many nights in a row. I'm sure I'll grow to like the new cover, and therefor killing the perfectionist in me just a little more than the day before.
JacksSmirkingRevenge (#1324)
Location: That place where Billy Elliot was comitted, England
Quote: "What can the harvest hope for if not for the care of the reaper man?"
Posted: 7230 days ago
Location: Perth, Austrslia
Quote: "Let us rain some DOOM down upon the FILTHY heads of our DOOMED enemies! - Zim"
Posted: 7230 days ago
Dryden (#840)
Location: Alabama
Quote: "Exciting Opportunity: This Space For Rent!"
Posted: 7229 days ago
Andrew (#1279)
Location: Texas
Posted: 7229 days ago
Will you have some books signed? Like a limited Edition?
Emily (#609)
Location: New York
Quote: "When in doubt, fuck it. When not in doubt, get in doubt!"
Posted: 7229 days ago
You know, I'm actually going to have Company before I have Syrup. Recently I discovered that my dad ordered it a while ago and it just hording it here until my birthday, which is in March. Despite the fact that I figured out, he seems bent on keeping it, hoping I'll forget or something. Ha! Ah well. I'll just have to re-read JG again and again.
Looking forward to it! :-)
-Em
Kyle Fritz (#1483)
Location: Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, United States
Quote: "No Bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it, by making the other poor dumb bastard die for HIS country."
Posted: 7229 days ago
That's what I see at least from my expieriance.
~Fritz
Matt (#808)
Location: AZ
Quote: "The only 3 books I've read in the last few years have been from the Barry Collection"
Posted: 7229 days ago
shabooty (#637)
Location: D.C./V.A/M.D.
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Posted: 7229 days ago
http://bahahs.blogspot.com/2005/07/ode-to-mb-okay-heres-bottom-line.html
=)
Sophie (#891)
Location: Devon
Posted: 7228 days ago
And I like the new cover, but I still stick with my idea that something sexy or sinister would be more eye catching.
Have the doughnut pictured in a strip club, then people would buy it thinking it was a book about strippers, then BAM ... you'd hit them with a witty corporate satire. That'd be cool.
Ruth (#288)
Location: Bath, United Kingdom
Quote: "Only the insane have strength enough to prosper. Only those who prosper may truly judge what is sane."
Posted: 7228 days ago
Narain (#824)
Location: Los Angeles, right between civilization and a desert
Quote: "NI!"
Posted: 7227 days ago
Daniel (#1474)
Location: Cleveland, OH
Quote: ""I like cat's!" gets me every time."
Posted: 7227 days ago
Airborne (#1471)
Location: Anchorage, Alaska
Quote: "C 1/501 Artic Airborne Infantry "Geronimo!""
Posted: 7227 days ago
The maple has more mass, and taste to it, making it that much more fulfilling; and he wonders if this change will negatively affect the sales of your book.
After telling me this, he sighed, and went back to meditating.
Airborne (#1471)
Location: Anchorage, Alaska
Quote: "C 1/501 Artic Airborne Infantry "Geronimo!""
Posted: 7227 days ago
It's no longer in the crappy doughnut cover... a mean, having those words in there zoomed your attention to that part of the cover, forcing an subconcious analysis, the birth of intrigue. I mean, just the sheer psychological force of the combination of the godly doughnut and the words handing from the crisp bitemark is enough to make an illiterate buy the book, but now you got that doughnut that's been sitting in the gutter for a week, all mushy and saggy (can't even reflect the tabletop surface like e heavenly one can) up the trying helplessly to catch the eye, and it has now identifier to signify it's a novel! What kind of crazy world do we live in, this is, this is, this is fuck'in bullshit. How can you stand for this!? This is not some hollywood remake, this is YOUR book, the original. This represents you, long after this website and your others crash, after you die and your grandchildren grow old. What are your great grandchildren, living on Io in the orbit of Jupiter 150 years from now are going to think of your book when they do a online search of ther last name and see your soggy doughnut come up? This is wrong, wrong I tell you! Aaaarrrraaaaaaggggggggghhhhhhhhh!!!!
Robert (#413)
Location: Los Angeles
Quote: "A positive attitude will not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."
Posted: 7226 days ago
Emily (#275)
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Quote: "Reading is sexy"
Posted: 7226 days ago
The doughnut in the old picture was a much prettier doughnut, but it looks a bit too much like a Krispy Kreme. (I dont know if they have them in Australia...) Exactly like a Krispy Kreme. The Other one just looks like a gas station doughnut. Plus it's ugly.
Airborne has it right. You're gettin ripped off. ; )
~EM!LY
Jeremy Shenk (#426)
Location: Lancaster, PA, USA
Quote: "you're only special when you break from the mold"
Posted: 7224 days ago
the only problem with pre-ordering is not being able to walk through Barnes and Noble holding and knowing i'm better than the people there to buy Schlock.
Jjuulliiaann (#1111)
Location: New York
Quote: "Religion is the Opium of the People --Karl Marx"
Posted: 7224 days ago
Heh.
Reggi (#774)
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Quote: "it's not the men in my life that counts -- it's the life in my men. - mae west"
Posted: 7220 days ago
also, the new donut looks like someone licked all the icing off and then took a photo of it, which...kinda icky.
i want the old donut, damnit!!!
Stick! Government (#1499)
Location: Edmonton ,Alberta, Canada
Quote: ""Hmm, #1499, cool, I took financial management, i always round off. But, thats actually kinda cool, having the last number in the 1400's."
Posted: 7219 days ago
dave (#1500)
Location: ireland
Posted: 7218 days ago
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/074757250X/qid=1123429605/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_11_1/026-5936391-8103658
Stick! Government (#1499)
Location: Edmonton ,Alberta, Canada
Quote: ""Hmm, #1499, cool, I took financial management, i always round off. But, thats actually kinda cool, having the last number in the 1400's."
Posted: 7218 days ago
Airborne (#1471)
Location: Anchorage, Alaska
Quote: "C 1/501 Artic Airborne Infantry "Geronimo!""
Posted: 7217 days ago
Max, if I send you a copy of the book "The Hungry Years" by William Leith, will you sign it for me.... I really like that doughnut.
Erin (#1481)
Location: Seattle
Quote: "Living is easy with eyes closed"
Posted: 7215 days ago
Arundhati (#1422)
Location: India
Quote: "Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup."
Posted: 7214 days ago
Please?
Galen (#1516)
Location: In a land far, far away, sometimes referred to as college.
Quote: ""It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. " - Oscar Wilde"
Posted: 7210 days ago
No, really.
I'm going to bug the school bookstore into ordering some. That way my parents will pay to feed my obsession.
dave (#1500)
Location: ireland
Posted: 7209 days ago
Airborne (#1471)
Location: Anchorage, Alaska
Quote: "C 1/501 Artic Airborne Infantry "Geronimo!""
Posted: 7200 days ago
David (#1848)
Location: Texas
Quote: "Delighted!"
Posted: 7092 days ago
So, let me know, if you don't mind, with a few "Well, duh's", so I can relax.
The doughnut picture is a logotype for the abbreviation of the word "Company" (Co.).
Right?
That's what so cool about it, right? Surely THAT is the point the artist was trying to make, right?
Love it, it's perfect!
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