Eldest Moves Past Printing Error In Big Release Last Tuesday’s big 1.3 million-copy laydown of Christopher Paolini’s ELDEST was made more complicated by a printing gaffe in which a portion of copies were missing a signature, inexplicably replaced by a signature from competitor Cornelia Funke’s forthcoming INKSPELL instead. Tomorrow morning Random House will announce their estimate of a robust initial sell-through, along with a big reprint, expected to be well into six figures. Random House Children’s executive director of publicity Judith Haut, on tour with Paolini, says that a signing yesterday at a Bethesda, MD Barnes & Noble lasted for […]
