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Thursday, April 12, 2007

There's nothing like an author's death to boost the sale of their back catalogue

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This is part of a screenshot of the Amazon.co.uk website taken at 9.15pm.

You'd never know Kurt Vonnegut died today, would you? His sales figures probably haven't looked this healthy in quite some time!

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