Last night I posted the Man Booker Prize long list. Today I read that some of the smaller publishers in the running are preparing to reprint titles both as physical books and as e-books to meet expected demand.
Initial print runs for some of these books were only 3,000 to 6,000, as is standard for small independent presses. "We've seen an immediate surge in sales this afternoon," Robert Davidson of Sandstone Press, is quoted as saying on thebookseller.com. "We will be thinking of a reprint next week." (Sandstone is the publisher of "The Testament of Jesse Lamb," a longlisted novel by Jane Rogers.)
Other publishers are thinking that e-books might be the way to go.
You can read the full story on thebookseller website.
