{"id":966,"date":"2008-06-29T22:46:47","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T03:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/29\/99-copies-of-book-on-the-shelves-at-the-nypl\/"},"modified":"2008-06-29T22:46:47","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T03:46:47","slug":"99-copies-of-book-on-the-shelves-at-the-nypl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/29\/99-copies-of-book-on-the-shelves-at-the-nypl\/","title":{"rendered":"99 copies of book on the shelves (at the NYPL)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Previously, as I noted, as of May 1, there had been like 19 copies at the NYPL,<\/a> with a bunch of holds. Then today, a\u00c2\u00a0 reader sent me an email saying they got a gigantic order in<\/p>\n

Just wanted to let you know that I finished reading your book this morning (I thought NYPL was never going to get to me because I was about 400th in line… until they suddenly got a huge shipment and I ended up with a brand new copy!)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She checked online and 99 copies<\/a> now available, which is a dramatic increase from a few weeks earlier. It’s interesting. I noticed a similar increase in my co-publishee’s book, The Geography of Bliss (which shot up from 40ish to 170+ copies) and wondered if there comes a time when the publisher just decides to release more copies, or if the libraries just order more or what.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, now that the computer system is back up, I now know that the Queens Library system has 47 copies<\/a> of the book, about 10 alone of which are at the Flushing branch (my favorite, and where I gave a talk in early June).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Previously, as I noted, as of May 1, there had been like 19 copies at the NYPL, with a bunch of holds. Then today, a\u00c2\u00a0 reader sent me an email saying they got a gigantic order in Just wanted to let you know that I finished reading your book this morning (I thought NYPL was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-musings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-fA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}