Move over, Oprah

Posted By Daniel W. Drezner Friday, January 26, 2007 - 3:25 PM Share

Sure, an Oprah book club selection can net an author millions in book sales and royalties. However, according to the New York Times, Tom Stoppard might be the Oprah of the Long Tail: ?Russian Thinkers,? a 1978 collection of essays on 19th-century Russian intellectuals by the philosopher Isaiah Berlin, has virtually disappeared from bookstores across the...

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PATCHEN

5:22 PM ET

January 26, 2007

The internet isn't much help

The internet isn't much help if you don't know much about how shop for books on the internet: Bookfinder (which aggregates results from a number of different used and new book search engines) produces around 75 results for used copies of Russian Thinkers, some of which may already be sold or be duplicate entries, of course, but the point remains. Perhaps someone should buy them all up and hawk them in the 66th St. subway station...

ADAM L

6:50 PM ET

January 28, 2007

That is very strange. I could

That is very strange. I could see if Instapundit or Kos had suggested some obscure philosophy tome there being a mad dash, but a footnote buried inside a Playbill? Very strange indeed. It must have been a pretty good play.