UPDATE: A few minutes after I posted this, Kos himself adressed the issue. I'd remove the diary, but that would mean removing points from people, I think. So I'm leaving it. And the comments are good in any case.
Do these figures make sense? I don't think so.
On the Drudge frontpage:
BOOK SALES SOS: CARVILLE/BEGALA BOOK BUST, 'TAKE IT BACK' SELLS 17,734 COPIES SINCE JAN. RELEASE, ACCORDING TO NIELSEN'S BOOKSCAN; WONKETTE ANA MARIE COX 'DOG DAYS' 5,383 COPIES SOLD... DAILY KOS 'CRASHING THE GATE' ONLY 253 COPIES PURCHASED, NIELSEN CLAIMS...
I don't have access to the Nielsen figures for booksales, but we can all look at Amazon.com. Here's what they report:
On Carville/Begala: "Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,141 in Books...Yesterday: #6,661 in Books"
For Crashing the Gates "#830 in Books ... Yesterday: #1,177 in Books"
What's going on? Kos seems right now to be doing much better that the Carville/Begala team. OK, the Nielsen figures are for over2+ months, but it still looks fishy.
My ability to respond is limited for most of today, but this looks too suspicious to wait on it.
And maybe we should each buy a copy of CtheG, just to improve ourselves.