Author and self-described book geek Joe D'Agnese yesterday was one of many customers picking up signed copies of Patrick Rothfuss's new book, The Wise Man's Fear (DAW), at Malaprop's, Asheville, N.C. They were some of the 3,000 copies of the book the author had signed at Penguin offices in New York that were distributed to nearly 50 bookstores around the country. Discovering from Rothfuss's blog that Malaprop's would have signed copies of the book, D'Agnese called and found out that he was just in time: the store sold some 50 copies in one day, all by phone. D'Agnese commented: "The industry should come up with a better term for this phenomenon. It's not hand-selling anymore. It's blog-selling. Or something."