Eugene David<br>...The One-Minute Pundit

Posted 9:56 AM by Gene

The question is: Do 50,000 hits mean anything when it comes to book sales?

BookStandard.com ANSWERS ITS OWN QUESTION:

[Jessica] Cutler, a former low-level Senate aide who caused a ruckus in May ’04 in the Beltway after being outed as the candid, albeit anonymous, blogger of her own sexual escapades with notable Hill staffers, won a six-figure deal from Hyperion for a veiled autobiographical work named after her blog, Washingtonienne. To date, the novel, which debuted in June, has sold 10,000 copies, as reported by Nielsen BookScan. Beth Dickey, associate director of publicity at Hyperion, says the publisher is "very pleased with the sales," mentioning that BookScan data represent only "a portion of the marketplace."

Wendy McClure is another blogger who has had experience with book results that are decidedly more mid-list than blockbuster—and that’s just fine with her publisher.

McClure, who maintains a wry, witty blog about America’s obsession with weight loss [!! --ED.] (she also oversees a humor site called candyboots), recently wrote a memoir titled I’m Not the New Me (Riverhead); according to BookScan, it has sold 6,000 copies since it debuted in April....

The answer is CLEARLY NO, at least among those people who may not think NEW YORK MEDIA TYPES preach THE WORD OF GOD, PINCH notwithstanding.