Post by Kahlessa on Nov 12, 2007 22:43:46 GMT -5
Next is finally out in paperback and it is available in four different colors! There is white with red type (like the hardcover), yellow with red, orange with blue type, and green with purple type. Very festive and just in time for the holidays! You can select the cover you like best or buy them all. (Then you can carry them with different outfits!)
One change from the hardcover is this statement on the copyright page:
“BioGen Research Inc., a company featured in this novel, is a product of the author’s imagination and should not be understood to refer to any actual company.”
It turns out there is a real biotechnology company named Biogen Idec, headquartered in Cambridge, MA. It was formed in 2003 from the merger of two of the world's leading biotechnology companies, Biogen, Inc., founded in 1978, and IDEC Pharmaceuticals Corporation, founded in 1985. Here’s the company’s website:
www.biogenidec.com/
When the hardcover of Next was released on November 28, 2006 there was a full page ad in the New York Times, A13, for Genentech “a biotechnology company committed to making sure price is not a barrier to access for patients. For more information, visit us at www.gene.com ”
The ad featured a photo of woman and her mother, and a letter that reads:
Dear Genentech,
I am writing to thank you for two things. First, thank you for the work you do in developing new cancer medicines. Second, thank you so much for providing support so that my mother can receive your medicine at no charge. You have given us hope, even reasons to smile. My mom is clearly not just a medical case number to you. The people at the Genentech Access to Care Foundation were so courteous and kind in giving my mother the medicine she needs.
Thank you from my heart.
Jody Clemente
Pelham, New York
(letter printed with permission)
Does anyone think the timing of that ad was a coincidence?
One change from the hardcover is this statement on the copyright page:
“BioGen Research Inc., a company featured in this novel, is a product of the author’s imagination and should not be understood to refer to any actual company.”
It turns out there is a real biotechnology company named Biogen Idec, headquartered in Cambridge, MA. It was formed in 2003 from the merger of two of the world's leading biotechnology companies, Biogen, Inc., founded in 1978, and IDEC Pharmaceuticals Corporation, founded in 1985. Here’s the company’s website:
www.biogenidec.com/
When the hardcover of Next was released on November 28, 2006 there was a full page ad in the New York Times, A13, for Genentech “a biotechnology company committed to making sure price is not a barrier to access for patients. For more information, visit us at www.gene.com ”
The ad featured a photo of woman and her mother, and a letter that reads:
Dear Genentech,
I am writing to thank you for two things. First, thank you for the work you do in developing new cancer medicines. Second, thank you so much for providing support so that my mother can receive your medicine at no charge. You have given us hope, even reasons to smile. My mom is clearly not just a medical case number to you. The people at the Genentech Access to Care Foundation were so courteous and kind in giving my mother the medicine she needs.
Thank you from my heart.
Jody Clemente
Pelham, New York
(letter printed with permission)
Does anyone think the timing of that ad was a coincidence?