Hillary Falls to #4 On Amazon.Com

Amazon.com | June 17, 2003 | Amazon.com

[JLAGRAYFOX]

Hillary's book drops to #4 on Amazon.com Sid Blumenthal's book "The Clinton Years" drops to #67

[JLAGRAYFOX]

So, what's all this hype about record breaking sales. For goodness sakes, the "The Witch, Hillary & The Slime, Sid" never made it to #1. Someone is spinning someone! What's the story Simon & Shuster?

[bedolido]

She's gotta be used to "Early Withdrawl"

[CygnusXI]

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How long was Savage at #1?
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[princess leah]

Time to call up those supporters of the CLinton and threaten, I mean encourage them to go stock up on this timeless piece of work...yeah right...Don't you just wish we could have a 24 hour wish list like that kid had in "Liar, Liar" and put Bill and Hillary on the truth watch! What a fun time THAT would be if they were forced to tell the truth...

[kimoajax]

Don't you get the feeling something is funny about the sales numbers.

I have a vague recollection of someone making a charge that some wealthy friends bought up tons and tons of an author's book, just to later unload them at a loss...as a ligit way to "reward" the author.

Who was it and what was the book?

[randog]

Hillary! doesn't care if she ever sells another book. The only reason she wrote this one was to 'inoculate' herself, i.e. she can dismiss any future uncomfortable questions by stating that 'she already addressed that issue in her book'. The big loser is S&S, who thought that Hillary would write an honest memoir that would sell huge.

[Calvin Coolidge]

I'm afraid it was Newt Gingrich's book from right after the '94 elections.

[js1138]

Amazon doesn't list fiction and nonfiction separately. harry Potter has been number one since February. NY Times hasn't listed for this week, but I suspect the wicked witch will spend at least a week as number one. The new York Times made a special rule a couple of years ago specifically to exclude harry Potter from their list.

[Servant of the Nine]

Good Lord

"The Prince"
by Niccolo Machiavelli

is at #14. Now that's cutthroat politics.

So9

[My2Cents]

Plus, she got her money, so what does she care about sales?

[HHFi]

I've written two books, one self-published and one from a major NYC publisher, so I know how the business works; and I've been saying since day one that nobody should believe the PR releases from the publisher about the giant sales of this book. I have no doubt it shipped big to the stores, but I think it will be shipping nearly as big back to the publishers. I predict it will be like the soundtrack to the movie of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," which got a double platinum album award for shipping so many copies to stores, then 99 percent of them were returned, and it infested remainder bins for years afterward. The debacle led to them changing the rules for what wins a platinum or gold record. I also said from day one that more than half the copies of this book that will ever sell will have been sold within a week of its release, and I stand by that.

[My2Cents]

How is it that the new Harry Potter book, in different forms, make up four of the top ten positions on Amazon? (Guess Hillary's book got people in the mood for more stories about witches.)

[RandyRep]

I went to Costco yesterday and there were stacks of Hillary's and Sid's books. Sid's stack looked untouched, while Hillary's stack was maybe one book thickness below Sid's.

I wasted 10 minutes watching to see if anybody took one -- just a few browsers who opened Hill's book to the inside cover, then quickly put it down. Hill's book was discounted to $17 already.

[Servant of the Nine]

AHA

Hillary is #1 on the Amazon "Hardback Biographies & Memoirs" list. They have so many lists every book with any hype is at the top of one or another.

So9

[TomGuy]

Oh this is tragic!

S & S will never sell a million + 300,000 at this rate!

[handwringing]

[cyncooper]

There was nothing unethical about Newt's book.

The case kimoajax is thinking of is dem (natch) Jim Wright.

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a4199f42de6.htm

[iceskater]

I was at Costco on Saturday - not a single soul picked up the Hillary opus. Hah! And the price was $15.49. The publisher has a lot of books to sell at that price to cover that $8M advance.

[weegee]

"Like a rock! Oooooooh, Hillary's book sales are sinking like a rock...."

SeeBS-Viacom owns Simon & Schuster. The same people who replaced firemen and police officers boos with cheers on the Concert for NYC video.

[RnMomof7]

Their friends bought advance copies. Now they need to get some to buy the retreat ones

[randog]

I went to Costco yesterday and there were stacks of Hillary's and Sid's books.

Same thing at the Costco in my town. Hillary!s book was prominently displayed but only a few were missing from the huge stack.

[brewcrew]

I was in Sam's Club yesterday and saw it on sale for $16 and change. That's 40% off already.

[bray]

Looks like the Union membership is buying Christmas stocking stuffers for the "lucky" brotheren!

Pray for GW and Our Troops

[ken5050]

She's only been paid about $2.5 mill of the advance.....

[ken5050]

About the only reason to hope the book sells a million is that Tucker Carlson promised to eat his shoes on live TV on CNN if it does...

[Cate]

Oh, I hear the sound of someone falling off a perch...aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh....catch me Bill..............aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggghhhhh...thud....dang Bill you missed..

[SW6906]

Fort Worthless Jim Wright was the one - you beat me to it! ;o)

[YaYa123]

"New broom sweeps clean"

One of my Mother's favorite old sayings. In this instance, the double entendre makes it even better.

[Paleo Conservative]

"I have a vague recollection of someone making a charge that some wealthy friends bought up tons and tons of an author's book, just to later unload them at a loss...as a ligit way to "reward" the author.

Who was it and what was the book?"

I'm afraid it was Newt Gingrich's book from right after the '94 elections.

Wrong Speaker of the House. It was Jim Wright.

[Paleo Conservative]

About the only reason to hope the book sells a million is that Tucker Carlson promised to eat his shoes on live TV on CNN if it does...

Hopefully after he has stepped in dog excrement.

[mathluv]

Unions bought Jim Wright's book.

[plain talk]

Well I'm Freeeeee .... Freefalling. Yes, I'm freeeeee. Freefalling.

[gridlock]

Same thing at the Costco in my town. Hillary!s book was prominently displayed but only a few were missing from the huge stack.

So what, exactly, is the penalty for taking a leak on a big ol' pile of books down at the local Costco? And if you have to reimburse the store for the cost of the books, would that constitute a sale?

[PJ-Comix]

Here is the LINK to Hillary's book. But it's even worse than you think. Hillary's book got beaten out in the #3 slot by a NON-FICTION book called THE PATHWAY. Since Hillary's book has been hyped as the best selling non-fiction book in history with over 600,000, this must mean that The Pathway is doing EVEN BETTER. But has anybody even heard of this book before. I know for sure it hasn't had even 10% of the hype of Hillary's book yet it has beaten out the Hillary book even though it was published way back in January of this year.

News organizations really need to look into the PHONY HYPE being conducted by Simon & Schuster.

[ken5050]

The bow tie may also be an impediment to swallowing..

[Calvin Coolidge]

I wasn't accusing Uncle Newtie of being unethical. People bought the book with their own money, though partly motivated by a desire to inflate the numbers.

Jim Wright lost his speakership by using his book as a cynical fund-raising technique in order to skirt campaign-finance laws, which is behavior of an entirely different nature.

[TomGuy]

Melting! I'm melting. Melting

[js1138]

Actually I suspect that the first 200,000 copies were sold to Michael Jackson, but he'll return them because they just aren't quite the right shade of smoky puce to match his curtains.

[randog]

Here's a list of books that were bought with Hillary!s book:

An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 by Robert Dallek (Hardcover)
Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life by Queen Noor (Hardcover)
The Woman Who Wouldn't Talk by Susan McDougal, et al (Hardcover)
Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth by Joe Conason (Author) (Hardcover)
The Hunting of the President: The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton by Joe Conason, Gene Lyons (Hardcover)

Hillary!s book is only popular with lefties--not a good sign for S&S.

[Howlin]

She got a third of her money. So far.

[KellyAdmirer]

Any time a publisher or anyone else declares victory that early in the game - We won! We're brilliant! Envy us! It's been a whole day and we have the best book OF ALL TIME!!!!!!! - it's pretty clear they know they won't have much to brag about a little further down the road.

I'm sure S&S made all sorts of deals to spread out its risk, and was probably in the black on this before the witch even hired someone to write the book.

[laredo44]

I have a vague recollection of someone making a charge that some wealthy friends bought up tons and tons of an author's book, just to later unload them at a loss...as a ligit way to "reward" the author.

Who was it and what was the book?

I'm afraid it was Newt Gingrich's book from right after the '94 elections.

I think the book in question was by Jim Wright, Texas Dim, and Speaker of the House. Wright got unions and other Dim contributors to buy the book in bulk as a way of laundering money to him. Gingrich rode Wright out of the House over the book and Dims never forgave Gingrich.

Gingrich signed a deal after he became speaker that generated so much outrage among Dims and their lapdogs at ABCCBSNBCCNN he eventually said "screw it" and renounced the advance.

[Howlin]

She needs to sell TWO MILLION to make the 8 million back for S&S.

[Tacis]

"Yo, Terry!! We need some help here."

"Tell those bastards at Amazon that either Hillie's ranking goes up or some of the FBI file contents get released; Craig is on the other line, my friend."

"We've also got all this union and Chinese money. Have Janet get a bunch of her Jamaican and Haitian folks on some computers and lets buy a bunch of copies. We can't give all the dem and Hillie haters MORE ammunition!"

"It was so much easier when Willie was in office, we could just call the NYT or the National Enquirer and have them print some story to divert attention."

"Hey, how about NEVER MIND HILLIE'S BOOK FAILURE, Bush was on the boat with his father and neither had on a life jacket!!!"

[cyncooper]

News organizations really need to look into the PHONY HYPE being conducted by Simon & Schuster.

Unfortunately, news organizations are too busy taking the faxes they receive from Simon & Schuster and putting them right into print or giving them on-air dissemination.

Even Fox.

[bandleader]

It looks as if the "KlinToon Kool Aid"supplies are(at last)running low!

[Boiler Plate]

Unions bought Jim Wright's book.

We have a winner!

[cyncooper]

People bought the book with their own money, though partly motivated by a desire to inflate the numbers.

And you base this assertion on what?

[Eva]

They seem to be counting the store orders, not the consumer sales. The book is heavily discounted everywhere, in hopes of moving the books off the shelves. Costco is pushing the book on their website for 15.00.

[cyncooper]

...in order to skirt campaign-finance laws

BTW, that is what some of us are accusing hrc of doing via Simon & Schuster.