Brown included in "Justin Biebers of Politics" - along with Rand Paul and Christine O'Donnell

[karynnj]

They are being called out for writing autobiographies (Paul and O'Donnell have contracts) before they really accomplished anything. The article speaks of how some politicians write books on interests of others when young, but wait until after their career to write books on themselves. (They mention Obama, but his first book was written before he was a politician and was a best seller.)

Of interest is that Brown's book has had disappointing sales:

Brown’s book had sold a disappointing 15,534 copies as of last week, according to Nielsen Bookscan, which tracks bookstore sales, despite a wave of publicity over his revelation of childhood abuse. Paul’s has sold just 3, 766 books so far by that measure. And despite his frequent presence on cable TV, Harold Ford wasn’t able to convert his high-profile Senate loss into an appealing book – he sold just 8,841 copies, according to Bookscan data provided by an industry source.

But those figures don’t include the bulk purchases – often by candidates’ own committees – which can boost sales figures and make the books appealing to publishers despite the lack of public interest.
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For Brown, the message is the biography: the sort of heart-rending details the Massachusetts senator disclosed will go farther toward connecting him to his constituents in his liberal home state than anything he might do in the policymaking arena. In the case of Paul, the hardcover gives him a way to highlight his brand of libertarianism and grow his profile beyond Kentucky.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/52196_Page3.html#ixzz1I5ZdpKTL

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/52196.html#ixzz1I5WLicJH

This is likely why it hit number 4 on the non fiction chart the first week then disappeared. Given the massive amount of publicity, this is pathetic.