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Report: 'Gawker Guide' doesn't conquer bestseller lists

Gawker.com, along with its parent company Gawker Media and well-known overlord Nick Denton, might be a big deal around Gotham--so big, in fact that it merits New York magazine cover stories. But that doesn't mean the gossip blog is guaranteed a smooth entry into the world of print publishing that it so frequently skewers.

Portfolio blogger Jeff Berkovici dug up some Nielsen BookScan statistics that seem to indicate that The Gawker Guide to Conquering All Media, a glossy hardcover that was published last month, has sold only a few hundred copies. 242 copies, to be exact, though Berkovici … Read more