This just in from Smackdown champion Thomas Greanias.
This week's release of The Atlantis Legacy, a limited-run trade paperback combining the New York Times bestsellers Raising Atlantis and The Atlantis Prophecy in one volume, offers readers the world's first preview of this summer's most eagerly anticipated blockbuster: The Atlantis Revelation.
At the same time, however, Legacy already is raising speculation among collectors about its ultimate legacy. Amazon and Borders have issued warnings that stock is limited, with other chains hoarding copies at warehouses.
"This is clearly an unusual situation," noted one Barnes & Noble regional rep. "You have an extremely limited print run of a special edition trade paperback based on two extremely successful blockbusters. You do the math. There are bound to be disappointed customers before July. If we have copies in stock, we're keeping them in back, not in front. We don't want the die-hards coming in and finding out we don't have the title. Still, I give it two, maybe three weeks before this title is gone from shelves forever."
No reprints are planned, as the eagerly-anticipated third and final volume of the trilogy, The Atlantis Revelation, hits stores in hardcover on August 11. Next summer, meanwhile, will see new mass market editions for the three volumes of the blockbuster Atlantis trilogy.
Which makes this mysterious "fourth volume" all the more intriguing.
The interest for collectors is that The Atlantis Legacy has its own title, complete and apart from the trilogy, according to one bookseller at last weekend's Book Expo America publishing conference in New York City.
"Something amazing happens when you put the 'old' Atlantis in Antarctica from Raising Atlantis and the 'new' Atlantis in America from The Atlantis Prophecy together in one volume," he said. "Suddenly you experience the bridge across the eons between civilizations--truly The Atlantis Legacy."
The kicker, the bookseller said, will come as early as next year when people buy the mass market paperbacks for the Atlantis trilogy and see a reference to The Atlantis Legacy on the page that lists other books by Thomas Greanias.
"They're going to see the name The Atlantis Legacy and they won't be able to find it," he said. "It's like a Fourth Fatima. It's going to drive people insane."
BUY The Atlantis Legacy Special Edition
This week's release of The Atlantis Legacy, a limited-run trade paperback combining the New York Times bestsellers Raising Atlantis and The Atlantis Prophecy in one volume, offers readers the world's first preview of this summer's most eagerly anticipated blockbuster: The Atlantis Revelation.
At the same time, however, Legacy already is raising speculation among collectors about its ultimate legacy. Amazon and Borders have issued warnings that stock is limited, with other chains hoarding copies at warehouses.
"This is clearly an unusual situation," noted one Barnes & Noble regional rep. "You have an extremely limited print run of a special edition trade paperback based on two extremely successful blockbusters. You do the math. There are bound to be disappointed customers before July. If we have copies in stock, we're keeping them in back, not in front. We don't want the die-hards coming in and finding out we don't have the title. Still, I give it two, maybe three weeks before this title is gone from shelves forever."
No reprints are planned, as the eagerly-
Which makes this mysterious "fourth volume" all the more intriguing.
The interest for collectors is that The Atlantis Legacy has its own title, complete and apart from the trilogy, according to one bookseller at last weekend's Book Expo America publishing conference in New York City.
"Something amazing happens when you put the 'old' Atlantis in Antarctica from Raising Atlantis and the 'new' Atlantis in America from The Atlantis Prophecy together in one volume," he said. "Suddenly you experience the bridge across the eons between civilizations-
The kicker, the bookseller said, will come as early as next year when people buy the mass market paperbacks for the Atlantis trilogy and see a reference to The Atlantis Legacy on the page that lists other books by Thomas Greanias.
"They're going to see the name The Atlantis Legacy and they won't be able to find it," he said. "It's like a Fourth Fatima. It's going to drive people insane."
BUY The Atlantis Legacy Special Edition
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