[NewHampshireDuo]

The publishing house was “hoping and praying for 150,000 print first week.”

I doubt that the publishers were praying (at least in the true sense of the word).

[COUNTrecount]

Sure they were...to Mammon.

[Foolsgold]

It was here in San Diego yesterday, the talking heads on the radio claiming well over a thousand people, a reporter on the ground must nor have got the word, she said less than 200.