Another conservative best-seller the publishers wouldn't print I first realised how reluctant publishers and booksellers were to even believe conservatives could read when I put together Still Not Sorry, a collection of my columns. Major stores such as Borders - now closed - would not even stock it, yet its first and only print run of 15,000 still sold out, making it what counts in Australia as a best-seller. Professor Ian Plimer is a more astonishing example. Although already a successful author, he struggled to find a publisher willing to take on his Heaven + Earth, which attacked the global warming faith with cool reason. His manuscript was turned down by Random House, Allen and Unwin and East Street, which were otherwise happy to publish global warming tracts which sold in tiny numbers. Heaven + Earth was even rejected by ABC Books, which had previously sold 16,000 copies of Plimer's prize-winning A Short History of Planet Earth. Yet Heaven + Earth became an international bestseller, and sold more than 30,000 copies in Australia alone. Now it's the turn of Taxing Air: Facts and Fallacies About Climate Change - a sceptical analysis that is primarily the work of internationally respected geologist Bob Carter and Age cartoonist John Spooner, aided by such experts as former National Climate Centre chief Bill Kininmonth. They, too, could not find a publisher, and had to publish it themselves. Moreover, The Age has not granted this heretical book a review, even though one of the co-authors is a distinguished member of its staff. Is that because the book won't sell? No, because once again the evidence shows that, yes, conservatives do read and are hungry for the debate that publishers seem only too quick to deny. Amazon says Carter and Spooner's book is already selling handsomely: From the launch: Reviews here.