This morning as we went to publication, it was recovering a bit, but was still down 8.19percenttoto $144.98.
It didn't seem to matter who was in charge, nobody could stop the bleeding stock price, which has fallen this year from a high of $18.76 in January to $7.20 this morning before the markets opened (and had already lost another.15 a share as we went to publication).
Granted, this arc is spread out over a lot of books and separated into three distinct runs that are divided by several years, and the last run was written out but never went to publication.
I could not agree more and recommend that this crisp paper go to publication in present form.
Despite page views, Newsweek articles and whatever else supports the rise of so-called new media, the front row--and most other rows, for that matter--still goes to publications like Vogue, Elle, Harper's Bazaar and The New York Times.
It is easy to condemn the women themselves for writing for that paper at all, but times are tough for freelancers, and one can hardly blame a writer for going to a publication that commissions so much from women writers, even if it does then change what they've written.
In other words, are you simply going to "win" publication in a book that you will then have to purchase?
It then quotes a passage from High Times magazine, the go-to publication for weed counterculture: "Years before sophisticated sinsemilla techniques were incorporated into the crop management of U.S. growers, the Thais were, without effort, turning out a superior product".
Anyway, as we'll all have to roll over for Pippa eventually, the way things are going, I've decided to admit defeat, bow out gracefully, and accept that I'm never going to bring any publication a shitload of instant, foxy, quasi-royal publicity.
