Scooping Up Scoop

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Updated Apr. 25, 2017 4:57PM EDT / Published Oct. 20, 2008 7:22AM EDT

A tidbit from Media Bistro's Galleycat that warms The Daily Beast's heart: Sales of Evelyn Waugh’s classic novel Scoop, from whose pages this website takes its name, were up 83 percent for the week ending October 12. With overall book sales still pretty low—Nielsen Bookscan reports 3,000 copies sold since it started tracking in 2001—we won’t yet be demanding royalties.

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