On May 11, 11:54 am, "ozonb" wrote:
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On May 8, 12:12 am, "ozonb" wrote:





Bad luck for whacko, leftie, agenda-driven socialists.

The public is obviously starved of the true science.

May 8 2009

HOW hard is it to smash through Australia's group-think? Consider the case of Professor
Ian Plimer and the book he couldn't sell.

Well, couldn't sell until now, because Plimer's Heaven and Earth, debunking the great
global warming scare, has become an instant best-seller.

It today gets its fourth reprint in little over a fortnight, bringing to 25,000 the
number
of copies now sold or ordered.

This, in a country where a best-seller is reckoned at some 8000 copies, so we're talking
about a publishing hit.

But critics have wondered how Heaven and Earth came to be published by Connor Court
Publishing, a mere husband-and-wife operation in Ballan, and some have hinted - as did
the
ABC's Fran Kelly - that it's to the discredit of Plimer.

In fact, the discredit belongs entirely to the bigger publishers who turned him down -
ABC
Books, Random House, Allen & Unwin, and East Street.

So sure in their global warming faith were these city publishers that they were unable
or
unwilling to see there was a big market of readers keen to hear the other side of a
debate
that the mainstream media had shouted for years was "settled".

It wasn't as if Plimer was a newcomer who couldn't write. He had a proven record of
success as an author when he offered these four publishers his latest effort - a
500-page
assault on the hottest gospel of our overheated times.

He'd already produced best-sellers such as Telling Lies for God (Random House, around
23,000 copies) and A Short History of Planet Earth (ABC Books, around 16,000 copies),
which had won him the coveted Eureka Prize.

But this time he was given not a contract, but a cold shoulder.

Nor is it the case that these publishers were bored with global warming as a topic.

Here, for instance, is Allen & Unwin's latest title on the topic: The Clean Industrial
Revolution, praised by the Rudd Government's global warming guru, Ross Garnaut, as "a
passionate and informative demonstration of how mitigating climate change can be
compatible with economic growth". Heard of it?

And here's the latest global warming title published by East Street: Cool Hunting Green,
blurbed as a book that "recognises the hottest designs right now are those that promote
a
cleaner, greener and more beautiful planet".

Hmm.

Detect a pattern already?

Let's now check what's on the warming agenda of Random House, which describes itself as
a
"carbon aware business", whose employees "treasure our local environment".

I went through the six pages of titles thrown up when you search its online catalogue
for
"global warming" and "climate change", and found Earth in the Hot Sea, A Blueprint for a
Safer Planet, Extreme Ice Now, The Global Warming Survival Kit, Disappearing
Destinations
and similarly scary titles.

It was the same we're-doomed story over at ABC Books, which offers a rich pick of
apocalyptic titles and green bibles - Scorcher, An Inconvenient Truth, On Borrowed Time,
The Story of Global Warming, True Green, Green is Good and worthily more.

But, to its small credit, the ABC did finally offer two titles countering this great
wave
of alarmism: The Great Global Warming Swindle (a British DVD "on direct request only"),
and, just now, Plimer's book, which the ABC wouldn't print but will sell.

Debate?

How lucky you are to have it.

http://blogs.news.com.au/heraldsun/a.../heraldsun/com...

Warmest Regards

Bonzo

As I posted earlier this week, amazon.uk had it ranked in the 6000s
among top sellers and amazon.de in the 9000s. Sorry, that's most
decidedly not a best seller. ("Top 9000 best seller!" doesn't have
much zing to it.)
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It is a best selling Australian book in Australia!



No, it's not in the top ten Australian books in either the non-
fiction
or fiction categories according to Nielsen Book Scan.

1. 9780977544097 Underbelly:Tale of Two Cities John Silvester &
Andrew
Rule Floradale Press $24.99
2 9780340936177 My Booky Wook Russell Brand Hachette $27.99
3 9781921351433 Dreams from My Father Barack Obama Text Publishing
$24.95
4 9780747585664 Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth Gilbert Bloomsbury
$24.95
5 9781846053450 Dear Fatty Dawn French Century $34.95
6 9781741963595 The Country Women's Association Cookbook Murdoch
$29.95
7 9780733325328 Spotless 2 Shannon Lush & Jennifer Fleming ABC Books
$19.95
8 9780141042886 A New Earth Eckhart Tolle Penguin $26.95
9 9780646470801 4 Ingredients Kim McCosker & Rachael Bermingham 4
Ingredients $17.95
10 9780670072972 Crunch Time:Lose Weight Fast and Keep it Off
Michelle Bridges Penguin $34.95


Fiction:


1 9781741757866 Handle with Care Jodi Picoult Allen & Unwin $32.99
2 9780230529205 Assegai Wilbur Smith Macmillan $49.99
3 9781846052590 8th Confession James Patterson Century $32.95
4 9780593057049 Gone Tomorrow Lee Child Bantam $32.95
5 9780718154455 Corsair Clive Cussler & Jack B. Du Brul Michael
Joseph $32.95
6 9780593053379 One Day at a Time Danielle Steel Bantam $32.95
7 9781847441843 The Host Stephenie Meyer Hachette $32.99
8 9780007240425 Once in a Lifetime Cathy Kelly HarperCollins
$32.99
9 9781847245458 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson
Quercus $22.95
10 9781921470202 Just Take My Heart Mary Higgins Clark Simon &
Schuster $29.95


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This may shed some light:


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Ben McNeil investigates Andrew Bolts claim that Ian Plimer's error-
filled Heaven and Earth has 25,000 copies sold or ordered:


Indeed, if a non-fiction book has 25 000 copies sold in Australia it
is a massive blockbuster. I was suspicious when reading through the
SMH book section the last couple of weeks and 'Heaven and Earth' not
being listed in their top-seller list for non-fiction. Being a little
more rigorous, Bookscan, which track book sales in Australia doesn't
list it in the top 10 for non-fiction for the month as of the time of
this blog entry . Seem a little odd to you?


Further investigation by a publisher friend of mine who is registered
to track book sales through Bookscan reveals a big discrepancy
between
known sales and what Bolt quotes. According to Bookscan there were
3242 total sales for 'Heaven and Earth' up until Friday, May 1.
That's
sales in all the major booksellers like Dymocks, Angus & Robertson,
etc across Australia.


According to my publisher friend, add about 10-15% on that number to
capture the sales from book-sellers not part of Bookscan (smaller
book
chains, university co-ops etc). So the total sales of 'Heaven and
Earth' book is probably about ~3700.


http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2009..._and_earth.php
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Fran