April 28, 2006

Update on Kos Book Sales

Glenn Greenwald in his obnoxious manner examines the sales numbers of Markos Moulitsas' and Jerome Armstrong's Crashing the Gate. I mentioned them previously. Even little old me who is in the bookselling business can't tell you how many sales qualifies as a "hit." (I do know fiction has to sell better than non-fiction.) Sources gave Greenwald sales numbers for Glenn Reynolds' An Army of Davids and Hugh Hewitt's Painting the Map Red. CTG is beating them both.

Glenn Reynolds' source tells us "the average nonfiction book sells around 5000 units in its lifetime." Then Kos and Armstrong are doing well. CTG could sell 15,000-18,000 or go as high as 30,000 in 2006. That's not Da Vinci Code numbers, but that would be great for a political book.

Greenwald is right if CTG is a book bomb then Reynolds' and Hewitt's books are "grotesque flops." Give Greenwald a point.

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