Partisan books are all the rage

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/231358p-198552c.html

Four years ago this week, as the last presidential campaign was taking off, The New York Times best-seller list included one political book.

On today's list, seven of the 15 nonfiction titles are political. More recent sales will hike next Sunday's total to nine.

In addition, eight other politically charged books have sold well enough to vie for slots on the Times list.

And three more books will join the crowded field this week as Kitty Kelley's gossipy tell-all on the Bushes, "The Family," hits stores along with Seymour Hersh's "Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib" and James Naughtie's "The Accidental American: Tony Blair and the Presidency."

In the article it's claimed that the SBL's book had a 650,000 print. Last I heard from Sludge they had about 80,000 scanned. I think since they've been exposed and after the inital koolaid drinkers had their copies. I wonder how soon this piece of crap will hit the bargain bins.

[Philostopher]

1. I saw somebody had posted last week that ...

bookstore chains like B&N abd Borders had reported receiving calls from potential buyers of the SwiftLiar book, but when they tried to return the calls to let the poeple know when they expected the book to arrive, sometimes the same day, many of the numbers were bad or disconnected.

Sounded to me like the usual effort wingnuts make, this time to inflate the sales to bookstores by requesting copies at different (bogus) phone numbers so it would appear to be selling more than it was and, of course, be listed on bestseller lists.

Funny -- usually wingnut authors themselves buy bulk numbers of their own books then dump them at $2 a copy on conservative websites or places like 'Half Price Books'. It's a new way to cheat, having people who don't exist call bookstores to try to pump up the numbers the bookstores order. Just as dishonest, mind you, but interesting.

[stray cat]

2. Anybody know if swift boat book is being bought in bulk.

I figure a few republican corp are buying the book in mass to keep its sales up. Does anyone know if its more single copies or bulk purchases?

[justgamma]

3. Wondering how many Clinton

insiders wrote books about how bad he was? I don't remember any, but I may not have been paying too much attention.
Can't people see that there are lots of people trying to get the truth about Bush out there?