Issue No. 0 was released in January and has gone into a third printing; orders for No. 1, due out March 2, reached more than 100,000 copies.
And that is the exciting part, the book is now in a second print run.
In a second print ad, bearing the headline "Sample Joy," a woman in a lab coat, holding a clipboard, stands next to a picnic table where a man, boy and girl are trying Tree Top apple juice and apples.
The work sold well, resulting in a second print run.
Now the deadline for exchanging old money for new has been postponed until early January.Until now, at least three different afghanis have been coexisting: one version printed by the former government of Burhanuddin Rabbani and then used by the Taliban; another produced while the Rabbani government was in exile; and a third printed by Abdul Rashid Dostum, a warlord based in northern Afghanistan.
Within two months, The Sun Also Rises was in a second printing, with many subsequent printings to follow.
Although Baldwin had been cautioned about the prospects of a book with such a controversial subject, it received good reviews and went into a second printing in six weeks.
(A book of the same name is also being published this month in a first printing of 100,000).
The entirely revised sixth edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary, published last month by the Oxford University Press in a first printing of 600,000 copies, has been well-received.
Set 20 years after the time period of the original novel, Go Set a Watchman was published in a first printing of two million copies and became an overnight sensation, but the novel met with critical disfavour for what many considered an inferior quality of writing and for its unflattering characterization of her enduring protagonist, who had been deemed the "moral compass" of a generation.
