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1. James Russell Says:
   October 9th, 2009 at 7:26 pm

   John,

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2. Dubliner15 Says:
   December 13th, 2009 at 7:31 pm

   Those figure for some of the pol books are not correct: the Cowen bio (path to power), for example, was selling 300-plus copies a week when released in Oct 2008. Not 300 in total, as you suggest!

3. John Whelan Says:
   December 22nd, 2009 at 11:46 am

   Dubliner 15, you are right to suggest that the sales figures on Brian Cowen: Path to Power require clarification as the 331 figure I refer to in the article should have stated this was the number of sales up to last week for 2009. Since launched in October 2008 the book sold a further 2,473 in that calendar year. This gives the title, total sales of 2,804 to date according to Nielsen BookScan who are the reputable authority and accepted standard for the auditing and verification of book sales. The purpose of the article was not to have a pop at anyone’s book or the poor performance of any titles but simply to make the point that books on the banking and economic crisis are outselling the usually popular political biographies this year and even Mr Tayto is more flavour of the month this Christmas than the last three Taoisigh, Cowen, Ahern and Reynolds.

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