Joe McGinniss corrects the erroneous reports that "The Rogue" is not selling well.

Courtesy of Joe's blog:

THE ROGUE is selected as an “Editor’s Choice” in the October 9 edition of the New York Times Book Review. That is a distinction not carelessly awarded. 

It also debuts on the New York Times Best-Seller list on October 9, as #7 on the e-book nonfiction list, and as #10 on the hard-cover list. 

And that’s on the basis of only the first six days of sales, not even a full week.  

Some hostile Beltway sites gleefully pointed to the fact that THE ROGUE had sold “only” six thousand copies, as recorded by Bookscan. 

As if 1,000 copies a day was a poor rate of sale. 

In fact, the Bookscan number of 6,000 represents only 75 percent of hard-cover sales. 

So make the six thousand 8,000. 

And Bookscan does not include e-book sales, so nobody buying for a Kindle or Nook gets counted. Given that the NYTimes list ranks the book even higher on its e-book best seller list than on its hard-cover list, we can add another 8,000. 

And then there’s Canada, whose sales are not included, and which average up to ten percent of U.S. sales. 

Ten percent of 16,000=1,600. So a more realistic count of sales over the first six days would be at least 17,500. 

Hey, the numbers will be what they will be. 

But the MSM attempt to spin the first six days into evidence of “lukewarm” reception is dishonest. 

In any case, having first made the New York Times Best-Seller List top ten in 1969, and having made it again in 2011, that gives me best-sellers written over a span of 42 years, which my publisher believes to be a record.

They did the best they could. 

And they came from both the right and the left of the political arena. Dismissing, undermining, attacking, literally doing everything in their power to sabotage this book and keep it out of the hands of the very people who desperately needed to understand just how close they had come to allowing a crazy person to be the Vice President of the United States.

One even going so far as to forward a personal e-mail to an individual so despicable that they will NEVER be able to shower off the stench of their collaboration.

Yet McGinniss, and his book "The Rogue," persevere. As all TRUE lovers of truth and justice should have wanted, and worked for, all along.

And that is very bad news for a certain half term Governor, and very GOOD news for the rest of us.