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USA Today lists hot political books
By Jessica Schneider Jun 14, 2008, 12:46 GMT
In spirit of the election, political books are selling.
Some of the titles that USA Today mentions that are hot sellers, or are likely to be so are the following:
•Moore's Mike's Election Guide (Aug. 19), asks, "Why are Democrats scared of their own shadow?" and "Who would Jesus vote for?"
•O'Reilly's A Bold Fresh Piece of Humanity (Sept. 23) is billed as an "issues-based memoir."
•America: A User's Manual by Naomi Wolf (Sept. 16).
•The Third Term: Why John McCain Is Really Just More George W. Bush by Democratic strategist Paul Begala (Sept. 9).
• An as-yet-untitled biography of Michelle Obama by Washington Post reporter Liza Mundy (Oct. 7).
Yet one of the interesting points the article mentions is that despite the surge in political book sales around election times, publishers actually dread elections.
The article states: “As a recent JPMorgan forecast put it: ‘Book industry growth slows in election years as customers focus on media events/debates in lieu of bookstore browsing’.”
Fair enough. Click here to read more about these new and upcoming books.
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