Wednesday, December 13, 2006

The Free Version - Iraq Study Group Book

If you'd like to link to the Iraq Study Group report from your Web site, please use the following link:
http://www.usip.org/isg/iraq_study_group_report/report/1206/iraq_study_group_report.pdf

Downloads of 'Iraq Study Group Report' Beat Out Sales
December 13, 2006
By Kimberly Maul, Book Standard

Readers are heading online to download The Iraq Study Group Report for free, rather than buy the $10.95 book, published last Wednesday by Random House’s Vintage Imprint. The book, which has already gone back for a second printing, sold 38,000 copies in the week ending Dec. 10, according to Nielsen BookScan, while the online version has been downloaded approximately 1.2 million times, according to the U.S. Institute of Peace, which hosts the report on its website.

The book was released online and in book form on Dec. 6, to coincide with the presentation from the committee, led by former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, a Republican, and former Indiana representative Lee Hamilton, a Democrat, to President Bush and congressional leaders. The report is also available at the James A. Baker Institute website, where, from Dec. 6 to 11, it had been downloaded approximately 422,000 times, according to a representative.

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