{"id":286466,"date":"2011-08-03T20:36:16","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T20:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2011\/08\/03\/cool-death-and-the-penguin-promo-imaginary-places\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T16:17:03","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T16:17:03","slug":"cool-death-and-the-penguin-promo-imaginary-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2011\/08\/03\/cool-death-and-the-penguin-promo-imaginary-places\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool Death and the Penguin Promo [Imaginary Places]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just got an email about this awesome offer from Melville House that I wanted to share for a few reasons.:<\/p>\n

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From the As-If-The-Cover-Didn\u2019t-Tip-You-Off-Already department: Death and the Penguin by Andrei Kurkov is the perfect example of why the Melville House International Crime series is like no other: It\u2019s political, it\u2019s literary, it\u2019s hilarious, it\u2019s terrifying, and IT DOESN\u2019T TAKE<\/span> PLACE<\/span> IN SCANDAVIA<\/span>.1<\/a><\/sup> <\/p>\n

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To get the word out, for the next four days the ebook version of Death and the Penguin<\/em> is on sale all over the interwebs for only $3.99.\u2028\u2028<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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To make this deal even sweeter if you buy it in the next 48 hours we\u2019ll reimburse the complete cost of your purchase with a gift certificate to our website.\u2028\u2028 All you have to do is buy the ebook, \u2014 we recommend from your local Independent Bookstore’s website<\/a> \u2014 and email us your receipt \u2014contact@mhpbooks.com.\u2028 We\u2019ll reply with a coupon.\u2028\u2028 It\u2019s that simple.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I might be jumping the gun here—currently, the book is stil $14.95 via the Indie Bound website, although the Amazon<\/a> price is updated—but as soon as you can TAKE<\/span> ADVANTAGE<\/span> OF THIS<\/span> DEAL<\/span>.<\/p>\n

I read this book a number of years ago when it came out from Harvill in the UK and thoroughly enjoyed it. We’re actually going to be featuring the sequel Penguin Lost<\/em> as part of Read This Next, so you should start preparing now . . . <\/p>\n

The idea of giving readers a $3.99 gift certificate is super-awesome as well. And if you look at Melville House’s website,<\/a> it will take approximately .03 seconds to find something you want to buy. <\/p>\n

Coincidentally, L Magazine<\/em> released their “Best of Brooklyn” lists today, including one for Books & Media<\/a> that includes this award:<\/p>\n

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Best Small-Press Branding <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Melville House
\nHow to trick attractive young people into buying reissues and literature in translation? Collect-\u2018em-all series of jacket-pocket sized titles with clean covers. Their Art of the Novella and Contemporary Art of the Novella now being imitated by New Directions’ Pearls series, the Dumbo publisher has moved into an International Crime line (shades of Europa Editions and, well, large-house trends) and started the Neversink Library for out-of-print classics (including slim, terse Simenons) not already rediscovered by NYRB<\/span> Classics.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

AGREE<\/span>.<\/p>\n

1<\/sup> Yeah, we all make spelling mistakes. Especially when typing in ALL<\/span> CAPS<\/span> which, for some reason known only to Bill Gates and that Jobs guy, seems to circumvent most spellchecking programs. LIVING<\/span> ON THE<\/span> EDGE<\/span>.2<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

2<\/sup> Also interesting is that there are over 465,000 instances of SCANDAVIA<\/span> on the interwebs. Including sites like this,<\/a> where crazy people can ask batshit questions such as “What is the official language of Scandavia?” I LOVE<\/span> THE<\/span> WORLD<\/span> WIDE<\/span> WEB<\/span>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just got an email about this awesome offer from Melville House that I wanted to share for a few reasons.: From the As-If-The-Cover-Didn\u2019t-Tip-You-Off-Already department: Death and the Penguin by Andrei Kurkov is the perfect example of why the Melville House International Crime series is like no other: It\u2019s political, it\u2019s literary, it\u2019s hilarious, it\u2019s terrifying, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[3666,42036,25926,2816,6326,4636,42026,42046],"class_list":["post-286466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-andrey-kurkov","tag-death-and-the-penguin","tag-l-magazine","tag-melville-house","tag-pricing","tag-russian-literature","tag-scandavia","tag-the-future-of-bookselling"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":343296,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286466\/revisions\/343296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}