{"id":4497,"date":"2013-06-12T15:25:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T22:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=4497"},"modified":"2013-06-17T15:44:45","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T22:44:45","slug":"orwellian-rule-anew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/06\/12\/orwellian-rule-anew\/","title":{"rendered":"Orwellian Rule Anew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shelf-awareness.com\/issue.html?issue=2015\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from Shelf Awareness<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>It&#8217;s\u00a0<i>1984<\/i>\u00a0All Over Again: Orwell&#8217;s Book Sales Spike<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; float: left;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/media.shelf-awareness.com\/theshelf\/2013EditContent\/1984-centennial061213.jpg\" width=\"154\" height=\"220\" border=\"0\" \/>Daily disclosures about America&#8217;s surveillance apparatus have\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/law\/2013\/06\/11\/nineteen-eighty-four-sales-spike-amid-surveillance-disclosures\/?mod=e2tw\" target=\"_blank\">sparked renewed interest in George Orwell&#8217;s novel\u00a0<em>Nineteen Eighty-Four<\/em><\/a>. The\u00a0<em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>\u00a0reported that by early yesterday, sales of the dystopian classic had jumped noticeably, with one edition rising more than 7,000% in its Amazon rankings, moving from #13,074 on Monday to the top 200.<\/p>\n<p>The paperback edition Plume published on the centennial of Orwell&#8217;s birth in 2003 was ranked #80 on Amazon this morning, and the 60th anniversary edition #149. Elizabeth Keenan, a spokeswoman for the publisher, told the\u00a0<em>Journal<\/em>\u00a0that the sales jump is &#8220;symptomatic of all the surveillance coverage,&#8221; adding that while sales typically increase this time of year because of high school summer reading lists, this spike was unusual and &#8220;Plume wasn&#8217;t ruling out a relaunch of the book to capitalize on the interest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shelf-awareness.com\/issue.html?issue=2015\" target=\"_blank\">click to read at ShelfAwareness.com<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Shelf Awareness It&#8217;s\u00a01984\u00a0All Over Again: Orwell&#8217;s Book Sales Spike Daily disclosures about America&#8217;s surveillance apparatus have\u00a0sparked renewed interest in George Orwell&#8217;s novel\u00a0Nineteen Eighty-Four. The\u00a0Wall Street Journal\u00a0reported that by early yesterday, sales of the dystopian classic had jumped noticeably, with one edition rising more than 7,000% in its Amazon rankings, moving from #13,074 on Monday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}