'The Wind Done Gone', a black writer's parody of the Civil War-era novel "Gone With the Wind" has swept into U.S. bookstores, racking up brisk sales despite a legal battle over copyright violation continues.
Walter Vatter, the book's publicist said that Alice Randall's "The Wind Done Gone" had gone into a fourth printing, bringing the number of copies sold to 163,000 (25,000 copies were originally planned)
The book's publication follows an Atlanta court decision in late May that overturned a district judge's preliminary ban on the novel in April that was granted on grounds it violated copyright.
Heirs of Margaret Mitchell, late author of the perennially popular "Gone With the Wind," had sued Randall and her publisher for copyright infringement, alleging that "The Wind Done Gone" commits "wholesale theft of major characters" from the 1936 novel.
