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Lathbury, following publishing norms, applied for Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication data, unaware of how publicly available the information would be.

A writer in Seattle, researching an article on Jeff Bezos, the founder of the then-fledgling Amazon. com, came across the " Hapworth " publication date, told his sister, a journalist for the Washington Business Journal, who wrote an article about the upcoming book.

This led to substantial coverage in the press.

Shortly before the books were to be shipped, Salinger changed his mind, and in accordance with his wishes, Orchises withdrew the work.

Although new publication dates were repeatedly announced, the book never appeared.

Lathbury said, " I never reached back out.

I thought about writing some letters, but it wouldn't have done any good.