Dumps, Blads, and Gaylords: Publishing Sales Speak Gets Demystified - somersault

Dumps, Blads, and Gaylords: Publishing Sales Speak Gets Demystified

If you’ve ever pondered the cryptic acronyms and abstruse language found in the arcane world of publishing, VP of sales at Weldon Owen (@WeldonOwen), Amy Kaneko (@amykaneko), strips away the conspiratorial subterfuge to enlighten the uninitiated. She does so by parsing an innocuous email message she innocently sent to a colleague one day:

Hi ________,

I heard from the account. They saw the ARC and think it could be part of a coop opportunity for an endcap or MOD. Not for POG or WIGIG. Or we could put in a dump. They still want to see the dummy though. Of course we have to watch out, these guys might screw up the laydown and of course there is always the chance that they'll come back in a gaylord, then we'll have to remainder. I checked the stock and found we're OS! I can't sell what I don't have!

What!?

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(Above image is Kryptos, the coded sculpture in the CIA’s Langley, VA courtyard.)

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