Joe McGinniss' book on Sarah Palin not among top sellers

From Chicago Tribune: Joe McGinniss' book on Sarah Palin not among top sellers
Joe McGinniss' scathing new work about former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin may have lit up headlines, but it does not seem to have translated into hot sales.

Released on Tuesday, "The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin" sits at a modest No. 58 on the Amazon new releases list. It appears nowhere on the top 100 best-sellers list for Amazon or Barnes & Noble.

Many critics panned McGinniss' book, researched after he moved in next door to the Palin family in Wasilla, Alaska, mostly because of its damning assertions about Palin and her family, many of which were attributed to unnamed sources.

When asked how the book was selling, Doris Blechman, assistant manager of Anderson's Bookshops in Naperville, gave a simple answer: "So far, it isn't."

Employees at other bookstores in the Chicago area echoed the response. Blechman mused that some people might not know that the volume is in stores. That seems unlikely, but Martine Moore of The Book Cellar in Chicago's Lincoln Square neighborhood admitted that the book hadn't captured her attention.

"We don't even have it out on the front table," she said, noting that the store had sold only one of its five copies as of Friday.

Jason Smith, co-owner of The Book Table in Oak Park, theorized that "Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President" by Ron Suskind, released the same day, could have stolen some thunder from McGinniss' tome.

"I'm sure it will eventually do fine, but it's not quite the massive seller we had all expected it would be when he first moved next door," Smith said.