Today's New York Times diagnosed the sales cold that seems to have afflicted Bob Woodward's book about Deep Throat, The Secret Man.
According to the paper of record and major competitor of Woodward's longtime employer, the Washington Post, sales of The Secret Man have
lagged behind those of previous Woodward titles. At some stores, the
lack of customer interest has been profound. For example, Politics & Prose,
Washington,
D.C., has sold only 60-something out of the 400 it ordered, and Prairie
Lights, Iowa City, Iowa, has sent back 40 of the 50 it ordered.
Nonetheless S&S publisher David Rosenthal tried to put a happy face
on The Secret Man, saying, "It's been a fantastic bestseller. I
think it has been, given our expectations, a success, and we expect
more out of the book."
One apparent problem with the book was its timing: it appeared fully five weeks after Deep Throat was first identified publicly in an article in Vanity Fair. In that time, even Woodward scooped himself, drawing on the book for an article in the Washington Post that appeared before The Secret Man's publication.
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As part of the expansion of its trade sales force, Ingram Book Group has hired Mark Piasecki as a field sales rep to cover the wee territory of Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. He will represent Ingram's distribution client publishers and wholesale services.
Piasecki has been in the book business more than 12 years in sales, marketing, merchandising and advertising at Abrams, Barron's Educational, BDD and Western Publishing.
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Barnes & Noble will open a store in Snellville, Ga., in the suburbs east of Atlanta, in August 2006. The bookstore, which will stock close to 200,000 book, music, DVD and magazine titles, will be located in the Avenue Webb Gin shopping center at the southeast corner of Scenic Highway and Webb Gin House Road.
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Photo District News zooms in on the payment woes of several photographers who did work for CEDCO. The calendar manufacturer's former director of operations, who is settling some of the defunct company's business, told the journal that four secured creditors are owed millions and doubted that any unsecured creditors, such as photographers, would be paid.
One apparent problem with the book was its timing: it appeared fully five weeks after Deep Throat was first identified publicly in an article in Vanity Fair. In that time, even Woodward scooped himself, drawing on the book for an article in the Washington Post that appeared before The Secret Man's publication.
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As part of the expansion of its trade sales force, Ingram Book Group has hired Mark Piasecki as a field sales rep to cover the wee territory of Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. He will represent Ingram's distribution client publishers and wholesale services.
Piasecki has been in the book business more than 12 years in sales, marketing, merchandising and advertising at Abrams, Barron's Educational, BDD and Western Publishing.
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Barnes & Noble will open a store in Snellville, Ga., in the suburbs east of Atlanta, in August 2006. The bookstore, which will stock close to 200,000 book, music, DVD and magazine titles, will be located in the Avenue Webb Gin shopping center at the southeast corner of Scenic Highway and Webb Gin House Road.
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Photo District News zooms in on the payment woes of several photographers who did work for CEDCO. The calendar manufacturer's former director of operations, who is settling some of the defunct company's business, told the journal that four secured creditors are owed millions and doubted that any unsecured creditors, such as photographers, would be paid.