Archive for June, 2006

Jon Stewart’s Take on the Presidential Faux Pas – Wonkette

Posted in Booknoise Author, Booknoise Books, In the News, One Party Country, Peter Wallsten on June 16th, 2006

Jon Stewart’s Take on the Presidential Faux Pas – Wonkette

The latest Booknoise author, Peter Wallsten (with Tom Hamburger), has a new book, One Party Country, coming out next month, but this week got some surprising extra media coverage (and an apologetic phone call to his cell) when the president decided to rib him during a press conference.

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Why writers never reveal how many books their buddies have sold.

Posted in Book Promotion Strategies, In the News on June 2nd, 2006

By Daniel Gross

We’ve long wondered why the Bookscan numbers have not achieved the same marketing currency as the music industry’s Soundscan numbers, the best selling debuts of which are announced each week. Maybe because most books don’t jump off the shelf the first week of sale, the way records do. And that’s not a bad thing.

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