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Cuomo poll numbers high, book sales dismal

Oct 31, 2014 12:10 am
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has taken an odd-but-successful approach to campaigning this fall. Instead of much meeting of possible New York voters to sway them to his side, he's released a book and spoken to national audiences through a series of television appearances. The strategy appears to be working among voters, as the latest Real Clear Politics survey of polls puts Cuomo up 53-31 against his Republican opponent Rob Astorino. But book sales are a different story. Casey Seiler in the Albany Times-Union reports that Cuomo's political memoir "All Things Possible: Setbacks and Success in Politics and Life," released nationwide Oct. 14, has sold just 1,500 copies through Oct. 26, according to Nielsen BookScan, which covers roughly 85 percent of the print market, and the Cuomo tome is listed at No. 23,929 on Amazon's sales list. The governor got $188,000 from HarperCollins in 2013 for the book, according to tax returns. Other reports, according to the story, put Cuomo's take above $700,000. The governor has refused to disclose additional details about his publishing deal with HarperCollins, an arm of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Read the full story in the Albany Times-Union.