/lit/ - Literature

>Blood Meridian

>Like all his previous work, Blood Meridian did not sell well. Blood Meridian had an initial run of five thousand copies of which only 1,478 were sold. The unsold copies were pulped.

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>This is the first edition published in 1985 by Random House, his last with this publisher before moving to Alfred Knopf. Like all his previous work,Blood Meridian did not sell well. Ford & Pastore (2014)* claim that Blood Meridian had "an initial run of five thousand copies of which only 1,478 were sold and most of these as remainders having a remainder mark somewhere on them. The unsold copies were pulp. There were no hard cover second paintings or editions until the 2010 Anniversary Edition.

What lessons might we draw from this?