Book on O'Neill sells out fast in region (Pittsburgh PA)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04014/261248.stm

Readers curious to investigate the hype behind "The Price of Loyalty," Ron Suskind's new book about Paul O'Neill and the Bush administration, were hard-pressed yesterday to find a copy in Pittsburgh.

Interest was widespread in stores throughout the city, O'Neill's home before and after his 23-month stint as U.S. treasury secretary.

Barnes and Noble, Downtown, sold out of the book from pre-orders alone. Customers in the store were told to return later in the week. The chain's Squirrel Hill store sold out around 1 p.m., and a store manager did not anticipate new copies arriving until the end of the week. The book climbed rapidly to the No. 1 spot on the Barnes and Noble online best-seller list.

Border's in Monroeville does not take pre-orders and sold the last of its approximately 20 copies around 1 p.m. as well.

"We've had tons and tons of inquiries," said a salesperson at Bradley's Book Cellar, in Kaufmann's, Downtown. There was some confusion among customers regarding who wrote the book, but they knew they wanted it. "People were saying Wesley Clark wrote it, then that Paul O'Neill did," the Bradley's salesperson said. "Now, we have it on order."

And from Dicky Mellon Scaife's Pittsburgh Tribune Review

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/news/s_174411.html

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And based on calls to a handful of local bookstores Tuesday evening, "The Price of Disloyalty" apparently was impossible to buy in Pittsburgh, where O'Neill still lives after his long career at Alcoa and brief stint in the Bush administration.

Barnes & Nobles stores in Downtown, Squirrel Hill and Waterworks had either sold out or reserved their few remaining books for buyers, as had Borders Books Music & Cafes in the South Hills and North Hills. All of the stores said they had reordered fresh copies.

A Barnes & Noble staffer called it "Hillary Clinton-level stuff" and said the O'Neill book "just flew out of here." A Borders staffer said "It's no 'Harry Potter,' but it sold better than we expected."

Bookstore managers at the national chains are not permitted to reveal specific sales figures or order amounts. But one said "we got 25 copies in and at 5:15 we had four left - and they were on hold." Another said, "We sold our per-store of allotment of 20 and could have sold three times as many."

[flamingyouth]

1. I've got mine on order

My indie bookstore-owner friend had to place a second, back-up order due to all of the pre-sales. She also sold out of Kevin Phillips' book.

[RamboLiberal]

7. Ha - eat your heart out O' Reilly and Coulter

:kick:

This is a great sign - maybe the electorate is waking up!

[spinbaby]

2. UPS man just dropped mine on the doorstep

Can't wait.

[NoPasaran]

3. I got mine yesterday

Stopped by the Borders in South Austin. Thirty perecnt off, too.

[leetrisck]

4. Got mine today - have only read

the first few pages.

[underpants]

5. Yesterday 135 pages read

MAn this is a good book.

[jamesinca]

6. Got mine at Costco

Selling for $14.99 a copy there. Amazon was selling it at $18.20 so was Barnes & Nobles on-line. We need to read it, and we need to keep pressure on the politicians to remind them that a blow job is an impeachable offense. Lets send Bush to Cuba, or at least hold him and his cabal to the PATRIOT ACT for selling the US out.

[yolatengo]

8. christ, what lame-asses

At the Scaife paper.

"Lalalalala I can't HEAR YOU (unless you're a Democrat stabbing
another Democrat in the back in a book)!"

"I don't like the TRUTH in the book, so it SUCKS!"

ANYTHING to cover for the Unelected, Miserable Failure.

Bigby

[pansypoo53219]

9. bush is going down

but the MWs can't admit it.

[no_arbusto]

10. Notice how the Trib calls the book "The Price of Disloyalty"

I'm sure that was unintentional. I can't believe Scaife would allow something like that to slip by the editors. </sarcasm>

[RamboLiberal]

11. Nice catch - I'm so bleary-eyed from spending a couple of hours

skim-reading the book I missed that.

I gotta send this off to Mike Malloy, Randi, and a local liberal host Lynn Cullen who hates Dicky Mellon Scaife.

[no_arbusto]

13. Lynn Cullen

Years ago, my dad's friend was pulled over in Monroeville or Murrysville for having obscene bumper stickers. He was given a pretty big fine too. He went on Lynn's show with his attorney and, I believe, also got the ACLU involved. He eventually had the charges dismissed.

[Timefortruth]

12. Some editorial in the second article, "Price of Disloyalty."

The shit the liberal press gets away with is incredible.

[cliss]

14. I'm going to buy one.

I just hope they don't run out before I get a chance to buy the book. I'm SO excited; I've read on other threads that people are liking what they read.