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# What Really Caused a ‘Surge’ in Sales of Orwell’s Book?
- URL: https://goodoil.news/what-really-caused-a-surge-in-sales-of-orwells-book/
- Published: 2020-01-29T21:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-01-29T16:23:00.000Z
- Author: idbkiwi
- Tags: NZ, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:24

Enjoying contributor Christie’s piece from the other day [‘Alison Mau: A Comedy of Errors’ ](https://thebfd.co.nz/2020/01/alison-mau-a-comedy-of-errors/?ref=goodoil.news)I chose to ignore said author’s advice and read the original article on *Stuff* that spurred the clever response. Christie is right: Mau’s piece is indeed a comedy of errors.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/the_bfd-33.png)

The BFD. Stuff up of the day.

“Sales of George Orwell’s 1984 sold out”. Really? Perhaps *Stuff* means ‘Copies’?

The caption goes on to mention that the central character of ‘1984’ (actually: ‘Nineteen Eighty-four. A novel’ but let’s not be pedantic) was responsible for ‘**altering historical archives**‘: dear, oh dear. That can’t be good. Mau would never do that, would she? *Stuff* would never do that, would they? Make stuff up? Change facts? Yes*,* they would, and often.

Claiming that the book ‘sold out’ after Kelly-Anne Conway’s comment is simply **untrue.** It’s a fib, it never sold out anywhere. There was a ‘surge’ in sales of Orwell’s book which anti-Trump journos chose to attribute to Conway’s comment, but only by completely ignoring the fact that hours earlier that very same day, hugely influential (to hard-core lefties) *‘Huffington Pos*t’ published this feature pushing the Orwell slant:

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/the_bfd-78.png)

The BFD.

So: what was actually responsible for the book’s sales surge? HuffPo’s 2,000+word essay or Conway’s two-word remark? You be the judge.

Ali Mau #faketoo?

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