Hillary Freakonomics: Why NO Hillary Books At Flea Markets or Used Book Stores?

Self | April 10, 2006 | PJ-Comix

[PJ-Comix]

It is now about 3 years since the Hillary Clinton Lying History book has been published. And a STRANGE thing has happened. Despite the fact that her book was widely lauded in the press as the BEST SELLING Non-Fiction book ever published, I have yet to see used copies of it at flea markets or at used book stores.

I often check out both those markets for books. Normally when there is a big best selling book, such as a Stephen King or Tom Clancey book, you will see MANY used copies of them at the flea markets or thrift shops within a couple of years. The reason is simple. When books accumulate, people don't always keep them. What happens is that they either just throw them in the garbage, sell them at the flea market, or donate them to thrift stores such as the Salvation Army, Goodwill, etc.. As a matter of fact, people rarely just toss books into the garbage so most such books end up at flea markets or thrift stores. When you have a supposedly BEST SELLING book with MILLIONS of copies (supposedly) out there, they have to GO somewhere when the owner wishes to make more room on his bookshelf or moves. Thus the more popular the book, the more of them you will eventually see at flea markets or thrift stores.

Now here is a FASCINATING observation I have made. I have thus far seen NOT ONE of the Hillary books at either flea markets or thrift stores. Have you? Think about it. This book supposedly has MILLIONS of copies floating around out there and yet somehow they just don't make their way thru the normal book recycling system like other books. So what happened to all the Hillary books?

One clue was my personal observations shortly after it was published. I was curious if Hillary's book was popular in conservative areas of the country so I checked the Amazon Geographic book sales areas in places like Jackson, MS, etc.. Well, Hillary's book didn't even make the top ten list in such places so I began checking more liberal locations. Still NO Hillary books in the top 10. Finally I checked out ultra liberal locales like Berkely, CA and Manhattan. Amazingly in none of these places did Hillary's book show up on the top ten list. Some of you may remember that I posted these findings at the time here on the FR.

I did note one oddity however. Despite the fact that the Hillary book did not appear in almost any of the locales that I checked, it did score huge sales in some small town that I never heard of in Virginia. WHY?

Could the vast majority of the Hillary books (except for the autographed copies sold for profit on eBay) end up in warehouses? That is my suspicion and most likely they are still SITTING there. And who bought those books only to warehouse them? Labor unions? Other organizations? Using Freakonomics observations makes me suspicious that Hillary has received campaign contributions via PHONY book sales.

Remember, there is NO WAY that a BEST SELLING book won't show up later on at flea markets or thrift stores. That is what happens to all books and the bigger the book sales the more of them appear in such places. Please keep this in mind the next time you go to a flea market and see tons of Stephen King or Tom Clancey books.

Try looking for the Hillary book. So far I have seen NOT ONE of them.

[PJ-Comix]

I wish some enterprising reporter would look into this Freakonomics phenomenon surrounding the mystery of just what happened to all those MILLIONS of Hillary books supposedly out there.

[kevkrom]

What town in VA? I'll see if I can dig something up...

[theDentist]

That's easy. They're in the bathroom, next to the Koran, in case a roll runs out.

[PJ-Comix]

I don't remember the town. However, I did post info about this back then here on the FR. I found it FASCINATING that in liberal locales where you would expect the Hillary book to be a big seller, like Berkeley or Manhattan, her book didn't even score in the top 10. I guess you will have to do an FR search to find my thread from back then about this. It is the thread where I analyze the Amazon.Com geographic sales stats about her book.

[PJ-Comix]

FYI

[BluH2o]

Hilldabeast was assured best seller status with her book before the first chapter was completed. It probably sold well in Manhattan (NYC) a few other liberal enclaves and bombed bigtime in the red states. Not to worry though ... as the author of this article implies tons of her book sit in unopened boxes in remote warehouses. In time they will be destroyed. Hillary has her money... which was nothing more than a huge political gift disguised as an advance.

[Publius6961]

Isn't phony book sales a tried-and-true means of collecting illegal political contributions?
There is only one problem with this theory: storing millions of books costs money. Eventually, whoever is paying the storage fees will tire of it. Unless they are using abandoned warehouses, and the homeless can use the books for fuel to stay warm...

[PJ-Comix]

Hilldabeast was assured best seller status with her book before the first chapter was completed. It probably sold well in Manhattan (NYC) a few other liberal enclaves and bombed bigtime in the red states.

The AMAZING thing is that when I checked the Amazon.Com geographic sales stats at the time, Hillary's book didn't appear in the top ten in liberal places like Manhattan or Berkeley. I posted info about that phenomenom right here in the FR at the time.

[neb52]

"I often check out both those markets for books. Normally when there is a big best selling book, such as a Stephen King or Tom Clancey book, you will see MANY used copies of them at the flea markets or thrift shops within a couple of years. The reason is simple. When books accumulate, people don't always keep them. What happens is that they either just throw them in the garbage, sell them at the flea market, or donate them to thrift stores such as the Salvation Army, Goodwill, etc.. As a matter of fact, people rarely just toss books into the garbage so most such books end up at flea markets or thrift stores. When you have a supposedly BEST SELLING book with MILLIONS of copies (supposedly) out there, they have to GO somewhere when the owner wishes to make more room on his bookshelf or moves. Thus the more popular the book, the more of them you will eventually see at flea markets or thrift stores."

That's a big assumption. There are many people like myself that have small libraries in our home. I only get rid of books that were God awful, I accidentally purchased a duplicate or bought the Hard Back copy to replace a Paper Back.

I mean it is possible that her book is propping a door open , being used to get the computer monitor a few inches higher or something useful.

[PJ-Comix]

My guess is that the VAST MAJORITY of the Hillary book have been warehoused. I think most of the Hillary books that were actually SOLD to real people were the autographed copies that were quickly resold on eBay for profit.

As stated at the beginning of this thread, I have seen NONE of the Hillary books at any of the flea markets nor thrift stores in the past 3 years.

[elli1]

In the case of individuals--people don't usually dispose of books they haven't read. ;)

Generically speaking, I won't pass on a bad book...use them for fuel in the woodstove 'cuz I don't want anyone else to go thru the misery of reading it.

[Samurai_Jack]

Newt Gengrich had to step down because of his book sales. I suppose a persons politics does matter where it comes to law enforcement.

[PJ-Comix]

Some people will KEEP their books but many others get rid of them for a variety of reasons such as moving or even dying. When you are talking about MILLIONS of books sold (such is the claim of the Hillary flacks) then you would expect a percentage to show up at flea markets or thrift stores. Let's say the Hillary book sold a MILLION copies. Then if just 5% of them were recycled in the normal manner, then about 50,000 of them would have gone to flea markets or thrift stores. And yet I have seen NOT ONE Hillary book in either of those locations.

[PJ-Comix]

Most people won't burn or toss books in the garbage. The usual route is the donation bins of the thrift stores.

[Mia T]

Could the vast majority of the Hillary books (except for the autographed copies sold for profit on eBay) end up in warehouses? That is my suspicion and most likely they are still SITTING there. And who bought those books only to warehouse them? Labor unions? Other organizations? Using Freakonomics observations makes me suspicious that Hillary has received campaign contributions via PHONY book sales.--

Hillary Freakonomics: Why NO Hillary Books At Flea Markets or Used Book Stores?
Self | April 10, 2006 | PJ-Comix

Excellent observation and analysis! Your theory is consistent with the clintons other money-laundering operations, literary and not. We ought to do some further research on this. (Those holding onto the book for reasons of research, prosecution and/or 'history' are a distinct minority, I suspect.)

(bill + hillary) CLINTON 'CULTURE OF CORRUPTION' ^{part two}
DOCUMENTATION

by Mia T, 03.24.06


 

HERE

(bill + hillary) CLINTON 'CULTURE OF CORRUPTION' ^{part one}
by Mia T, 01.28.06

READ MORE

COPYRIGHT MIA T 2006

[js1138]

I go to garage sales every Saturday, and I share the observation that best-selling books show up within a couple of years.

A couple of interesting exceptions. I have seen only two copies of "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" and only a handful of Harry Potter books.

I could buy 20 Tom Clancy books every week for 50 cents each.

Rush Limbaugh's books are also unusual, but not rare.

[PJ-Comix]

A few months after it was published, I saw a copy of Robert Caro's Master of the Senate at a flea market being sold for just a few bucks. I felt like a jerk because I paid full price for it at the book store when it first came out.

[PJ-Comix]

Rush Limbaugh's books are also unusual, but not rare.

I've seen PLENTY of the Rush Limbaugh books at flea markets. Howard Stern books too. Basically, the more popular the book, the more of them you will see ending up at flea markets or thrift stores. Simple Freakonomics. The more books out there of a particular title, the more of them have to go thru the book recycling system which means that they end up at the flea markets and thrift stores.

Again, I have seen NO Hillary books at such locations. We are expected to believe that the supposedly BEST SELLING Book with MILLIONS of copies published somehow defied all laws of book recycling economics.

[Vor Lady]

I also do the Goodwill shopping thing and I can get all of Rush's books any day for $.99; even the hard bound. I haven't seen any copies of Hilary's book or Bill's book, except when it was new and in Sam's club.

[PJ-Comix]

Sometimes book are recycled just because the owner died. I bought several hundred books from a woman once because her husband passed away. He was originally from Germany and one of his books was by Ludendorf about WWI. The amazing thing was that this book had a packet of maps that looked like they were printed up only a couple of years earlier rather than in 1919 when it was originally published. The book cost me less than a dime (dividing the hundreds of books into the $50 I paid the woman). I ended up selling the book to a dealer at a gun show for a big profit.