Pratchett Soup Ads Incident
The cluster discusses the real-life incident where Terry Pratchett's German publisher inserted unauthorized Maggi soup advertisements into his Discworld novels, with users sharing articles and noting similar practices in other sci-fi and fantasy books.
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Recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37762092The time Terry Pratchett’s German publisher inserted a soup ad into his novel (2011)
Terry Pratchett found that one of his publishers had actually changed the text of his books to insert Advertisements, something along the lines of "and at this time our heros enjoyed a hearty bowl of $SOUP"http://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/terry-pratchett-and-...
I assume the ads would be for soup?https://lithub.com/the-time-terry-pratchetts-german-publishe...
https://web.archive.org/web/20231113180707/https://gmkeros.w...https://archive.ph/s6wbk
This is more amusing than anything: https://lithub.com/the-time-terry-pratchetts-german-publishe...
Back in the 90s in Germany, Heyne Verlag was infamously inserting ads for Maggi Instant Soup [1] into the text of many of its Sci-Fi and Fantasy novels.[1]: https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/terry-pratchett-and...
https://lithub.com/the-time-terry-pratchetts-german-publishe...
Similar things have been done, the German edition of one of Terry Pratchett's novels contained advertisements for soup shoved in the middle of the story.
I’m so sorry to ruin your day.https://lithub.com/the-time-terry-pratchetts-german-publishe...
Blogspam for https://gmkeros.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/terry-pratchett-and....