By: Greg Mitchell The long wait is over. Now you can order Jayson Blair's forthcoming book,
Burning Down My Masters' House: My Life at The New York Times at amazon.com.
The cover of the tightly guarded book, which will not be published until March, is
also available at the online bookseller. It features a mock front page of the
Times, with the paper's logo partly cut off at the top, the book title as a huge headline, and a fairly small picture of Blair in a light colored T-shirt (but looking very serious) in the lower right corner.
You can order it for $17.47 -- well off the list price of $24.95 (or think twice about that: see
Why the Big Payoff for Tainting Journalism?). The book is 288 pages long. Amazon customers who order the book now won't receive it until after the official printing date.
The amazon page holds a few other interesting tidbits. "Customers interested in this title" are also interested in "Masters Degree Programs in the New York City area." And those who "shopped for this item" also shopped for books by former ex-
Timesman Rick Bragg, Bob Kohn's
Journalistic Fraud and Malcolm Gladwell's
The Tipping Point.
But apparently there have been few shoppers so far, as its amazon sales rank at last check was 1,289,847.
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