A- Rod Book Tanking

Would you consider the Today show a major television interview?

 

Book has now dropped to 101 - not a good trend. There is not a book on the list that has generated more publicity in the past 3 months yet it is not selling.

Contrasted by:

Liberty and Tyranny #4 79 days in the top 100
Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto
by Mark R. Levin
$25.00 $13.75

Little publicity / few interviews - yet you can't keep the book on the shelves.

 

Which hour and who does the interview? But I wouldn't think shut-ins and stay at home moms to be the target audience for ARod Does Roids

 

Just a thought here ... any chance people aren't buying the book because the big bombshell (the positive steroid test) was widely reported a couple months ago?

 

Matt Lauer did the interview--he was hard on her--and I believe it was at the top of the second hour.

I was responding to the previous post about how a major interview would put the book on top of the list. I think she's done more than a couple.

 

I think that's it. You know the scoop, you lose interest in the details.

A-Rod is a liar and cheater? OK, got it. Saved $20.

 

In other words, why pay for it when I can get it on the Internet for free!

 

Or why buy the cow if the milk is free.

 

To be fair, Mark Levin doesn't get any mainstream play because he's a maladjusted Glenn Beck lite hate-monger. Which means he's all over AM radio and the wingnutosphere. There's a huge audience there that you might not necessarily ever come in contact with.

 

I heard Whitlock on Jim Rome yesterday and he went off on Roberts and the book.
Said it was nothing more than "a celebrity gossip book" --- which is a pretty accurate descrption it would seem --- and didn't trust her as a reporter because of the Duke lacrosse columns and the fact that she still stubbornly denies making any mistakes during that time period. (Not sure I completely agree with this rationale because she wasn't actually doing any investigation work in the Duke case, but I understand his point).

He also thinks Roberts is flat-out lying when she tells people she went into the project thinking A-Rod was clean and it wasn't intended to be a "gotcha" book. (I completely agree with him on this).

 

She went on Jim Rome yesterday to talk about the book.

An hour later, Whitlock came on, pointed out her performance regarding Duke Lacrosse, and said she had a clear "agenda."

He then said racism (against Bonds, A-Rod) was a major reason behind the steroids coverage.