[78-L] BOOK PUBLISHING DEADLINES..HOW TIGHT? ^

[David Lennick]

Michael Biel wrote:
> Was the book PRINTED in the U.S. or Canada, or somewhere else like 
> Singapore or China?  While pages can now be instantly sent to printers 
> by the internet, it still takes time to get the printed books back here 
> to the U.S. from Asia or Europe.
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com 

Good question..I'll go upstairs and get it in a minute. The confusion over the 
date of purchase (which I didn't correct while rewriting the message) stems 
from my trying to remember exactly when my wife and I were in Barnes & Noble in 
Buffalo..

Printed in the USofA. First edition December 2008. I guess it could have been done.

dl
> 
> David Lennick wrote:
>> A bit off topic, although in a general sense the book in question includes 
>> performers who made 78s. A recent Christmas gift is the heavy book MAKE 'EM 
>> LAUGH, published to coincide with the PBS series which starts next week (on my 
>> local channel, at any rate). Since we have a number of published authors on 
>> this list, I'm curious to know exactly how late last-minute information can be 
>> inserted in a book of this magnitude. The book was purchased at Barnes & Noble 
>> in early December. The last-minute information is a mention of Tina Fey's 
>> impersonations of Sarah Palin and their effect on the 2008 Presidential Election.
>>
>> There had to be a pretty tight window here! Just curious. I'm finding a 
>> publication date of December 2/08..actually I was certain it was purchased 
>> around November 27th (did Barnes & Noble get a pre-release?).
>>
>> dl