It's damn near a toss up ... Night, Oprah's most recent book club selection sits at 22 in the Amazon rankings. Whereas Osama bin Laden's recent nod to William Blum's Rogue State has had a similar effect:
By Friday night, Rogue State had gone from 205,763 to 26 on Amazon.com's index of the most ordered books.
Seth Greenland also weighs in:
Then, as if in a publicist's fever dream, lightning struck and an Arabic translation of Blum's tome somehow made its way to an obscure corner of Waziristan and into the hands of the world's most wanted bibliophile. The story would have ended there had Bin Laden not mentioned it in his recent audiotape, which was heard by a significantly higher audience than watches the Super Bowl. Talk about product placement.
(Speaking of blurbs, word recently reached us that TEV's guest review of The Hummingbird's Daughter will serve as a blurb for the paperback version of Luis Urrea's novel; though we scarcely imagine we'll have a comparable impact.)
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