Mark, I think i'll BTC first thing in the morning. Not so much because of Bezo's 10mil customer, but because in the next few weeks Bezos might announce a billion customers have ordered thru him, Hannibal #2.
Mark, please also think about this. Tomorrow if I get out, say @ 110, that will bring me a $70k profit. That's more than Bezo made, in Amzn's much publicized short history!! Don't you think??
Ps
Then I can short it , when the pig gets over-fed again, and the street once again begins to worry about Bezos's $losses. The only $money I might leave on the table is, if the pig doesn't get any fatter, and instead gets thinner.
I'll BTC @ the Getgo, first "thing" in the morning, if you call me so I don't sleep in. You can trust me on that.:-))
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NEW YORK (AP) -- ''Hannibal,'' the most anticipated book of the summer, arrives Tuesday, promising to chill readers with the return of the horrific Dr. Lecter.
Author Thomas Harris plans to promote this long-awaited literary event by doing -- absolutely nothing.
No interviews. No book-signings. No Oprah, no Rosie. No ''Good Morning America,'' no ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien.''
The only place fans can hear Harris' voice is on the book's audiotape version: He reads his own work.
The mind behind Lecter, the erudite serial-killing menace, has turned down scads of interview requests in connection with his first book in 11 years.
Why? Carole Baron, former editor-in-chief at Harris' publisher Delacorte Press, asked him that question.
''He said that all he has to say is in his books,'' Baron said.
Harris' legendary reticence has done little to quell the public's demand for another visit from Hannibal Lecter, who enjoys a robust red wine and some fava beans with his -- well, maybe not HIS -- liver.
''This is THE hot summer read,'' said James Marcus, editor of literature and fiction at Amazon.com., which first started receiving online orders for the book in April.
''Harris is very publicity-shy,'' Marcus continued. ''But I think he's got a large and very loyal audience.''
His publisher agrees. Delacorte has an initial printing of 1.2 million for the book, which Harris delivered in March. Four days before its release, it was already the best-selling book at Amazon -- based strictly on orders.
At the author's request, no advance copies of the book were released, although some details are known.
Hannibal the cannibal, after mounting a grisly escape at the end of the first book, ''The Silence of the Lambs,'' has been enjoying his freedom the last seven years.
One of his surviving victims, intent on luring Lecter out of hiding, kidnaps his ''Silence'' foil -- FBI agent Clarice Starling -- to use as bait. More bodies are expected.
That's it. Nothing more than that simple synopsis leaked out until this week, when the Internet magazine Salon reported that Lecter and Clarice wind up as a couple.
That lack of information is fine with Harris. Even the author's ''Who's Who'' listing is minimalist: four lines, not even a full birthdate (b. 1940), a simple recitation of his career as a journalist at The Associated Press and his three previous novels.
Harris bolted the AP after 1975's ''Black Sunday,'' a collaboration with two fellow news agency workers. He followed that with 1981's ''Red Dragon,'' which introduced Lecter, and 1988's ''Silence of the Lambs.''
Contrast Harris' behavior with the fanfare that greeted last year's big book event, Tom Wolfe's ''A Man in Full.'' Wolfe, resplendent in his three-piece white suit, graciously sat for magazine, television and newspaper interviews. He invited questioners into his Upper East Side home.
He was, in short, ubiquitous. Harris, on the other hand, is invisible. Wolfe's book ended up beneath Christmas trees; Harris' tome is more likely headed for the beach.
So is Harris. The author splits his time between homes in Long Island's Sag Harbor and Miami.<<
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