I just got the new New York Times bestseller list via e-mail. It supersedes the one that's currently posted at the Times site, which will appear in next Sunday's paper.

The currently posted list, distressingly, has Bill O'Reilly's Who's Looking Out for You? as the #1 nonfiction hardcover; it's been at that position for a couple of weeks. But on the new list I just received, O'Reilly drops to #4 -- and Al Franken and Michael Moore go to #1 and #2.

Explanation? The currently posted list is for the week ending December 27. It includes a lot of pre-Christmas sales. People buying books for other people assume those other people want to read O'Reilly.

The new list is a fully post-Christmas list -- and it appears that when people are buying for themselves, they're buying Franken and Moore.