Sneaky Peek

You may have heard about Scott McClellan's book What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception. It was scheduled for a June 3 release to the public, but a reporter in DC went into a bookstore and bought a copy in advance of its official release date. How does that happen?

NPR talked to Barbara Meade, one of the owners of Politics & Prose bookstore and asked her just that question. (Listen to it here).

The New York Times also weighs in on the subject of the embargo that failed. Once one bookstore let a copy slip (and the book was reviewed at politico.com), the publisher decided to allow other bookstores to sell the book early, if they'd received their shipments. Said McClelland's publisher Susan Weinberg, “In the end, we felt that even though not everybody would have the book, we felt we should tell them they could sell it because otherwise they would be miserable, because people would keep coming in and asking for the book.”

Read the NYT article here.--David E