Sales Up for Books on U.S. Electorate
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President Bush's re-election disappointed many in the publishing industry, a blue-state business where liberals have long predominated, but it has boosted sales for a few anti-Bush books, notably Thomas Frank's "What's the Matter With Kansas?"
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The nation's two biggest bookstore chains, Barnes &amp; Noble and Borders, say angry customers are accusing them of political bias as the retailers struggle to keep up with demand for a best seller that questions John Kerry's military service in Vietnam.
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Voter registration is up considerably in three US states considered key in the November 2 presidential election, state officials said.
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Revenues at online retailer Amazon get a boost from sales of the latest Harry Potter book.
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Here are some of the items the Democratic presidential candidates have purchased during their campaign:
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Sales of existing homes were up both nationally and in Lee County in November, according to statistics released today. Meanwhile, the median price for a single-family home also continued to rise both locally and nationally.
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Do U.S. voters really care that  George W. Bush's favorite gun is the Winchester his father gave  him, or that John Kerry likes fishing for blues and stripers?  Millions might, which means candidates will keep talking to  niche publications like Field & Stream.
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Three days before the election, President Bush is gaining on Sen. John Kerry among likely and registered voters, a Newsweek Poll said Saturday.
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There have been some big moves recently in the prediction markets that are tracking the presidential campaign.
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A Gallup Poll released Friday showed that President George W. Bush was widening his lead over Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry among likely voters, a result widely
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U.S. retail sales jumped a more-than-expected 1.2 percent in December, the government said on Thursday, as car dealers, furniture stores and on-line retailers reported strong sales.
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A registration campaign in Democratic areas has added tens of thousands of new voters to the rolls in Ohio and Florida.
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Publishers are starting to report an   uptick in sales from Google Inc.'s online program that lets   readers peek inside books, two years after the launch of its   controversial plan to digitally scan everything in print.
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Random House Publishing Group, the  world's largest book publisher, is planning to test selling  individual chapters of a popular book to gauge reader demand,  according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
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The level of interest, if it is matched by turnout at the polls on Tuesday, could make the results more important for Democrats than they had assumed.
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The nation's book publishers like "The View."
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Unprecedented get-out-the-vote efforts by Democrats, Republicans and a host of partisan and non-partisan groups will likely drive turnout in the Nov. 2 presidential election significantly higher than in 2000, political analysts said on Wednesday.