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To: ladyinred
Actually, the best way to do this is to use the voting system as I've described. Amazon does have another feedback feature, but it extremely hard to find. There are just too many books out there for them to have to answer mail about it.

I know this because I complained to Amazon -- months ago -- that OUR negative recommendations for Hillary's book had been removed from the page completely. They actually replied, and -- just justifiably -- informed me that their decision to remove them was because Hillary's book had not been published yet, and in fairness people should have a chance to read it before commenting on it.

Speaking of which, Ann Coulter made a funny remark about Hillary's book in a recent interview. She said she was waiting for a couple of weeks to comment on it, so as to give Hillary a bit of time to actually read it.
18 posted on 06/26/2003 10:42:59 PM PDT by paulklenk
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To: paulklenk
Hillary's book was the beneficiary of a massive, and frankly well-orchestrated pre-release publisher publicity campaign (barrage might be a better word) that was a text book example of "How to Hype a Book." It was brilliant and it did lead to massive sales in the first week.

Having congratulated the publisher on this brilliant job, let's move to week 2. It is an embarrassing nosedive, the massive printing order (part of the hype) and shrinking sales have led the book into remainder land in 2 weeks!

Huge library sales, school sales, union orders, etc. may bail out the publisher, but without the buying public it will take years, if it happens at all. Yeah I read the thing.(n.b. didn't buy it). It's crap. It's such bad crap that the liberal media elite could peddle it door-to-door for half-a-buck and still no one in their right mind would pay money for it.

BTW, Did I mention that politics aside even, Hillary's book was crap? Should have been entitled "Nancy Drew Runs Our Nation."

In regard to Ms. Coulter, she did a great job of research. As more and more comes out of the KGB files, embarassment and a violent left-wing reaction is to be expected. Me, I want to see two KGB Files, Bill CLinton's and Richard Holbrooke's... (not to mention Lee Harvey Oswalds REAL file.) Both of these guys, among others, spent a suspiciously long portion of their youths in the Soviet Union and satellites.

72 posted on 06/27/2003 6:45:33 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk
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