1984 is the hottest number, er, we mean book at the moment.
THE NSA Prism surveillance scandal has been good news for George Orwell’s book sales, and in particular for his dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, originally published in 1949. Sales of the centennial edition have risen by more than 7,000% on Amazon.com. Having been languishing at 13,074 in the list, it is now up to 193 and rising.
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