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McKnight, Martoia and Borders.com

Monday December 22, 2008

Categories: Books
This is what I found at Border's. Here's the image. As you can see, they managed to get The Blue Parakeet's author as a certain former, pretty student of mine named Ron Martoia: This is Ron Martoia and it...
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Jon
December 22, 2008 12:48 AM
http://mycreedjon.blogspot.com

Scot,

it must be the marketing strategy I guess...image sells. Or I guess they were just looking for a younger picture of you. haha. But still, the mix up is quite something, all your hard worked ideas, and Ron gets all the credit. :)

T
December 22, 2008 7:26 AM
http://www.getting-free.blogspot.com

It's the jeans.

SuperStar
December 22, 2008 8:04 AM

Maybe this is why Borders is close to, if not in, bankruptcy. They not only can't run a website, but they lost a ton of sales because people were looking for THE BLUE PARAKEET by Scot McKnight and it couldn't be found.

Tony Jones
December 22, 2008 8:07 AM
http://blog.beliefnet.com/tonyjones

Yeah, Scot, once you started wearing jeans, a lot of us began confusing you with Ron.

Don't sweat it. Borders will be out-of-business in a couple months anyway.

dopderbeck
December 22, 2008 9:05 AM

I dunno about Borders, but if they would put Ron's picture on the book jacket, my teenage daughter would buy it!

Leo
December 22, 2008 9:18 AM

By day - he poses as a mild mannered professor...

Yet when danger rears its head - he becomes...RON!!!

Steven
December 22, 2008 9:51 AM
http://letsmovetothemoon.com

On the bright side, it's got you listed on the bottom of the page as a contributor. That, and let's just say that I wouldn't want to be the one who has to distinguish between the two of you in a police lineup.

John W Frye
December 22, 2008 12:29 PM
http://www.jesustheradicalpastor.com

Which one Scot? I am so confused...

Who runs Borders??

Ron Martoia
December 22, 2008 12:45 PM
http://www.velocityculture.com

Ok Gang Borders serve Scotty a big old watermelon to smash out of the park. I gave him some facebook grief yesterday and I should know better than trying to give him %^&*@ about anything. I do want to say there is something to the jeans comments however. Tony, you are right. I have had numerous people wonder if in fact I was Scot or me. And I am sure Scot has lost thousands of sales by the wrong attribution of authorship.

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Scot McKnight is a widely-recognized authority on the New Testament, early Christianity, and the historical Jesus. He is the Karl A. Olsson Professor in Religious Studies at North Park University (Chicago, Illinois). A popular and witty speaker, Dr. McKnight has given interviews on radios across the nation, has appeared on television, and is regularly asked to speak in local churches and educational events. Dr. McKnight obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Nottingham (1986). Click to continue reading Scot McKnight's Bio...

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