Anticipating similar sales, Viking shipped 27,000 copies of The Odyssey to bookstores and 10,000 copies of a tape of the actor Ian McKellen reading it.
Viking enjoyed much higher sales numbers than expected and had to ramp up production to meet the immense demand for their books.
mnli hypothesis: Viking enjoyed much higher sales numbers than expected and had to ramp up production to meet the immense demand for their books. premise: Anticipating similar sales, Viking shipped 27,000 copies of The Odyssey to bookstores and 10,000 copies of a tape of the actor Ian McKellen reading it.