Runaway: A Road Adventure badly at all" in the United States, where its lifetime sales at brick-and-mortar retailers totaled 12,928 units by the end of that month. Chris Kellner of German publisher DTP Entertainment declared "Runaway" "a huge success" in Germany. By late 2003, it had surpassed the sales of any other adventure localized by DTP; as of March 2003, it had spent six months on Germany's computer game sales charts. According to the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce's "Hamburger Wirtschaft" magazine, "Runaway" it ultimately sold 60,000 units in Germany and helped to revive the country's adventure game industry. It remained DTP's best-selling adventure release
Cow Country (novel) Pynchon. Nate Jones at "Vulture" argued against Pynchon's authorship; he contacted Penguin Books directly and was reportedly told: "We are Thomas Pynchon's publisher and this is not a book by Thomas Pynchon." David Marks at "Writer's Quarterly" drew on certain consistencies to argue that the work is that of short story writer Jacob M. Appel, noting particularly certain thematic similarities between the novel and Appel's "Einstein's Beach House", published within six months of "Cow Country". Marks observed that the website "cowcountry.com" had previously been registered under the name "J. Appel." Laura Well speculates that the novel is actually a collective