Battle of the Bloggers
Charles Johnson
Tue Feb 28, 2006 at 7:54 pm PST • Views: 210
Dean Barnett notices a strange “coincidence” in the Battle of the Bloggers.
In a strange coincidence, the conservative/libertarian blogosphere’s most prominent denizen has a book coming out at almost the exact same time as the most famous liberal blogger does. Instapundit’s Glenn Reynolds’ “An Army of Davids” is coming out imminently as too is Markos Moultisas’ “Crashing the Gates.”
Markos, who runs the Daily Kos, reminds his readers frequently that his traffic is five times greater than the next most popular blog’s, which usually happens to be Glenn’s. So here’s something odd – on Amazon’s sales list, “An Army of Davids” ranks #256, while “Crashing the Gates” checks in at a subterranean #12,749.
So it’s fair to ask, what gives? Both bloggers have flogged their books to their audience. Their release dates are about the same. And yet even though Markos’ audience is supposedly several times the size of Reynolds’, Glenn is selling a lot more books.
Is Glenn’s audience so much more dedicated? Does Markos’ crowd lack the intellectual rigor to read anything longer than a blog post even if it’s written by their hero? Are Markos’ fans waiting to read the reviews before committing to laying out their $18?
It’s no coincidence; it simply shows how deep the convictions of the Kos Krowd go.
Frank says: