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Hillary Clinton's Memoirs to Hit Stores
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Posted on 04/28/2003 3:49:36 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Hillary Clinton's Memoirs to Hit Stores 1 hour, 28 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - After laying out a seven-figure advance for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (news - web sites)'s memoirs, her publishers are counting on seven-figure sales.

The account of her years in the White House will have a first printing of 1 million copies, her lawyer told The Associated Press. The 576-page book, entitled "Living History," is scheduled for release June 9. An audio version, read by Clinton, will be released the same day.

"Only a small handful of books have a 1-million-copy first printing, and I cannot think of another nonfiction book in recent history that has had that large a first printing," Robert Barnett, Clinton's lawyer, said Sunday.

The first lady-turned senator was paid an $8 million advance by Simon & Schuster. Foreign rights have already been sold in 16 countries, from South America to Europe to Asia.

The list price for the book, according to online seller amazon.com, is $28.

The book, which took two years to write, will be billed as a "complete and candid" accounting of her years in the White House, from the health care debate to impeachment to the launching of her own political campaign in 2000.


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1 posted on 04/28/2003 3:49:36 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver
It won't earn back what it cost Hillary's ghost writer to produce it. And it'll leave out the juiciest details of her White House years...
2 posted on 04/28/2003 3:51:22 AM PDT by goldstategop ( In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: Sub-Driver
>>>Only a small handful of books have a 1-million-copy first printing

Can you say "remainder aisle"? I thought you could. ;-)
3 posted on 04/28/2003 3:51:57 AM PDT by FreedomPoster
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To: Sub-Driver
It's category is even a lie. non-fiction? Yeah right.
4 posted on 04/28/2003 3:53:30 AM PDT by flying Elvis
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To: flying Elvis
It should go in the Fiction hardbacks category. LOL!
5 posted on 04/28/2003 3:54:17 AM PDT by goldstategop ( In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: Sub-Driver
The best they can hope for is to sell one hundred thousand of that million. Then that might take six months.
6 posted on 04/28/2003 3:56:45 AM PDT by chainsaw
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To: Sub-Driver
Just checked Amazon.com and it's not listed.
7 posted on 04/28/2003 3:57:14 AM PDT by airedale
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To: Sub-Driver
Wasn't it just two weeks ago we were reading how Hitlary hadn't even come up with a title? She certainly turned it out in a hurry.
8 posted on 04/28/2003 3:57:35 AM PDT by kcordell
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To: Sub-Driver
How about 'Living an 8 year Clinton White House Nightmare..' (for the title)
9 posted on 04/28/2003 3:59:37 AM PDT by ewing
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To: Sub-Driver
I would not give one red cent for the thing. I would not read it if someone gave it to me.
10 posted on 04/28/2003 4:00:47 AM PDT by HoundsTooth_BP
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To: airedale
It's listed on Amazon. Look it up here:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0743222245/qid=1051527596/sr=11-1/ref=sr_11_1/103-3326550-0487036

11 posted on 04/28/2003 4:00:55 AM PDT by goldstategop ( In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: Sub-Driver
Feh.
12 posted on 04/28/2003 4:01:45 AM PDT by mhking
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To: Sub-Driver
Where this book will wind up getting used the most.......


13 posted on 04/28/2003 4:01:48 AM PDT by Pistolshot
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To: FreedomPoster
You beat me to it. I wouldn't even spend 99 cents for that book.
14 posted on 04/28/2003 4:02:16 AM PDT by paulklenk (Have you done any thread searches on "kitties" lately?)
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To: Sub-Driver
The stores can keep it, I sure will not buy it.
15 posted on 04/28/2003 4:03:05 AM PDT by gulfcoast6 (The hardest secret for a man to keep is his opinion to himself.)
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To: goldstategop
Amazon.com Sales Rank: 2,211,975

This thing is going to be the "Heaven's Gate" of publishing.
16 posted on 04/28/2003 4:03:27 AM PDT by bootyist-monk (Wenn ist das Nunstruck git und Slotermeyer? Ja!... Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!)
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To: bootyist-monk
LMAO! Instant bombseller!!!
17 posted on 04/28/2003 4:04:32 AM PDT by goldstategop ( In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: Sub-Driver; All
BTW, here's the real skinny.

THE DOWNSIDE LEGACY ARCHIVES

18 posted on 04/28/2003 4:04:51 AM PDT by FreedomPoster
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To: Sub-Driver
999,998 books in the clearance bins.
19 posted on 04/28/2003 4:05:06 AM PDT by mystery-ak (The War is not over for me until my hubby and son's boots hit U.S. soil.)
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To: Pistolshot
Where this book will wind up getting used the most.......

The pages are too stiff to use as toilet paper.

20 posted on 04/28/2003 4:08:40 AM PDT by Alouette (Why is it called "International Law" if only Israel and the United States are expected to keep it?)
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