How do you know what is in the book? I have read only Chapter 3 and discovered plenty of new facts and information. If the rest of the book contains similar revelations, it will have a major effect. The best time for its release was after the Dems chose him as their candidate.
I haven't read the book, but if it contained new revelations about John Kerry that cast him in a negative light, we would have heard about it by now. At this stage of the general election campaign, most folks will be perceiving all this anti-Kerry rhetoric, as a last ditch effort to help defeat John Kerry. And you know what, they'd be right.