Slow going for Rove memoir auction

:nopity:

http://www.crainsnewyork.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071217/FREE/161682590/1084/newsletter01

Slow going for Rove memoir auction

Early reports had predicted a $3 million sale, but an auction for the Republican strategist's memoir has dragged on for a month.
December 17. 2007 9:48AMBy: Matthew Flamm

Bloomberg News

The auction for Karl Rove's memoir drags on a month after the Republican strategist made the rounds of publishers with Washington power lawyer Robert Barnett at his side.

“It's very, very slow,” says an executive at one of the few houses left in the bidding. Early reports had predicted a $3 million sale, but some insiders are wondering if Mr. Barnett has had trouble getting to that number. He declined to comment.

Mr. Rove isn't the only conservative meeting a backlash. The latest tome by right-wing scribe Ann Coulter, If Democrats Had Any Brains They'd Be Republicans, hasn't caught fire with book buyers.

The title spent just four weeks on The New York Times' best-seller list—compared with 12 for her previous book—and has sold 97,000 copies in the last 10 weeks, according to Nielsen BookScan, which tracks about 70% of the market.

Ms. Coulter's last effort, Godless, sold 233,000 copies over the same time span, according to BookScan.

NO SOUP FOR YOU!

NEXT!!

:rofl:

They'll be free. :evilgrin: