wheel of time - GalleyCat http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat The First Word On the Book Publishing Industry Copyright 2013 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:38:08 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 A Memory of Light Debuts at No. 1 on NYT Best Sellers List Despite Negative Campaign A Memory of Light debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times Best Sellers List this week, despite an online campaign to give one-star ratings to the conclusion of the epic fantasy Wheel of Time series created by the late Robert Jordan.

The digital book will not be released until April 9th. This decision generated a slew of angry one-star reviews on Amazon–most by people who had not read the book.

As of this writing, the book had 270 one-star reviews on Amazon, most of them from readers upset about the lack of a digital book. Do you think this negative campaign will influence any book buyers?

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]]> Jason Boog http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/a-memory-of-light-debuts-at-no-1-on-nyt-best-sellers-list-despite-negative-campaign_b63991#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/a-memory-of-light-debuts-at-no-1-on-nyt-best-sellers-list-despite-negative-campaign_b63991 http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/?p=63991 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 09:42:22 +0000 Wheel of Time Book Trailer Played Before Hobbit Screenings The Hobbit earned nearly $85 million in theaters this weekend, setting a new record for December box office performance.

Capitalizing on Hobbit-mania, Tor/Forge Books played a book trailer for The Wheel of Time series before The Hobbit in some theaters. A Memory of Light comes out January 8, 2013, the fourteenth and final book in Robert Jordan‘s beloved Wheel of Time series.

We’ve embedded the book trailer below…

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