

GROSS: So even before "Sweetness #9" got the Colbert bump, we had booked its author, Stephan Eirik Clark, on our show. Let's call it just Stephan Clark - we'll call him Stephan Clark, "Sweetness #9." If you're looking for another book to bump, that would be the one.

Stephan, I'm going to need to ask you to pick two of those three names. I'm reading Stephan Eirik Clark's book, "Sweetness #9," which is so good.ĬOLBERT: Debut novel called "Sweetness #9" by Stephan.ĬOLBERT. STEPHEN COLBERT: OK, is there another Hachett author that you'd like to bump here tonight to tell the good people out there maybe they should take a look at?ĮDAN LEPUCKI: Yeah.
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(SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "THE COLBERT REPORT") After turning her book into an instant best-seller, Colbert asked Lepucki to choose another first-time author about to be published by Hachett and give that book the Colbert bump. To fight back, he asked his viewers, the Colbert Nation, to use an independent bookseller to preorder the Hachett book "California," Edan Lepucki's debut novel. Colbert is published by Hachette and objects to what he describes as, Amazon's unilateral embargo against the publisher, which is especially harmful to first-time authors. Amazon retaliated by delaying delivery of Hachette books and not making new Hachette books available for preorder. As you may know, the publishing company Hachette has been in bitter negotiations with Amazon over Amazon's pricing of e-books. In introducing my guest, I have to mention the Colbert bump because my guest recently got it.
