Posted on 01/01/2011 3:53:34 PM PST by Justaham
A Salon political writer gave MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell Friday for why Bush's book is selling better than Clinton's.
NORAH O’DONNELL: And one had the highest ever approval rating for a President, leaving the White House, 66 percent. The other, one of the lowest at 22 percent. So, you would imagine or you might imagine that the popular Bill Clinton’s presidential memoir would far outsell the one written by the very unpopular, unpopular George Bush. Well, guess what? In the two months, in just two months President Bush's “Decision Points” memoir has sold almost as many copies as President Clinton’s “My Life” sold in two years. Alex Pareene is political writer for Salon, and he’s going to tell us why. Alex, so why is that? Why has Bush’s memoir “Decision Points” sold so well?
ALEX PAREENE, SALON: Well, obviously we can't say for sure because we don't know why those two million people have bought it. But, there are, I’ve speculated a couple reasons. It may be the fact that he was hated by so many people actually helped fuel his book sales because people wanted to hear him actually justify himself and explain some of his decisions that he made. And, you know, there are, I mean you can imagine that some people bought it as a gag or some people got it, received it as a gift and didn't really want it. And also the fact is like there are Kindle copies now, there are ebooks that are much more popular and not that’s a much cheaper way to buy a book. But my favorite speculative reason is that it's just half as long as Clinton’s book. Clinton’s book is like 1,000 pages long and George W Bush got his presidency done in 500 pages and then he's out.
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I run right out to patronize writers that I despise all the time.. .</sarc >
I wish I was hated like Bush 43 so I can make $$$ selling my bio.
That’s ok. Let the jealous Leftists say what they will. GWB is having the last laugh. #1 nonfiction book in the nation for 7 consecutive weeks and counting. Over 2 million sold in just two months, and sailing along toward at least 2.5 million sold in its first printing. Who knows how many copies will be sold by six years from now.
Contrary to media opinion, more Bush supporters are literate than Clinton supporters.
Let’s see... I loathed Clinton, but I didn’t rush out to buy his book. hmmmmm
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