Early Sales of a Book on Obama Anger Stores

By JULIE BOSMAN writing in the New York Times, August 18, 2008

Barnes & Noble has substantially reduced its 10,000-copy order of “Obama’s Challenge,” by Robert Kuttner, after Chelsea Green, the book’s publisher, announced it would initially be sold exclusively on Amazon.com.

Mary Ellen Keating, a spokeswoman for Barnes & Noble, said in a statement on Monday evening that the initial order “was based on the book being available to all booksellers simultaneously — an even playing field — which is common practice in book publishing.”
She declined to say how many copies the retailer ordered.

The complete story at the NYT online.