Just think, she was once a Goldwater Girl, and making that "what difference does it make" gesture for quite a while.
Posted on 07/09/2014 8:59:28 PM PDT by TigerClaws
Publishing executives are reportedly 'on notice' for allegedly paying Hillary Clinton $14 million for her highly-anticipated memoir which sold just 161,000 copies in its first three weeks. Sources told the New York Post 'there’s lots of finger-pointing going on at (publisher) Simon & Schuster' over the expensive deal. Although the publisher sent one million copies of 'Hard Choices' to stores, a low 85,000 were sold in the first week before sales plummeted in the subsequent two weeks. The book hit stores on June 10.
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Probably not considered light summer reading by the beach crowd.
Something like 2-3% of Hillary book buyers actually finished the book.
That raises an interesting digital privacy beef.
DRM should not enjoy any legal protection!
The only member of the Clinton. Family that I would buy a book about is Socks.
That cat knew how to give a press conference too.
My sister tells me the Albuquerque Costco has large, untouched stacks of them.
Socks and Buddy are the only Clintons I ever expect to mourn.
Went by Costco Tuesday morning and they had a hundred or so copies on display in nice neat stacks. It didn’t appear that one had been moved (duel meaning). But not one copy of “America” was to be seen.
The people of Fort Worth Tx. voted out the sitting Speaker of the House Jim Wright when his bogus book deal came to light. Once in a great while he pops up at some minor social function in the local paper.
So how will they recoup most of it? Likely in this type of situation. Get Liberal colleges and Universities to book her as a speaker and make her book mandatory reading. The students {cough cough parent taxpayers} get roped into paying for it. Don’t like it happens all the time. Liberal colleges have morons writing crap like global warming who aren’t even scientist and have them as paid required read speakers which they also charge students to hear.
I forget who said it, but someone once said, "History is filled with two kinds of people. The innocent people who write autobiographies, and all the guilty people who don't."
So how will they recoup most of it? Likely in this type of situation. Get Liberal colleges and Universities to book her as a speaker and make her book mandatory reading. The students {cough cough parent taxpayers} get roped into paying for it. Don’t like it happens all the time. Liberal colleges have morons writing crap like global warming who aren’t even scientist and have them as paid required read speakers which they also charge students to hear.
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I recently watched a Big 5 publishers conference wailing about how to stop self published authors from depleting status and profits wo which the Big 5 have become accustomed. They moaned that the government had to do something to stop indie or self publishers.
I thought it was absurd but the moderator - who participated in an unseemly way (cutting off the loan dissenting voice, lecturing) - stated firmly that the legal situation would not change (suppress independent or self publishers) until the next administration. That had people scratching their heads on both sides of the aisle. Was she thinking Repubs would squash independent markets. Probably not. Well, was she thinking the next Dem president would “help” the big 5 publishers? Well, perhaps in exchange for 14 million....
I will buy the book when its in the dollar store bin—for a buck.
Then mail it back to s&s.
They could write and sell all the books they want. They just couldn't take advances. Newt Gingrich would be a great lead for this campaign.
Listening to New Yorkers is like a slightly more esoteric scene of aboriginal tribesmen discussing who has bigger magic ;)
My wife's business is predicated on the idea that these guys are the modern version of Nineteenth Century physicians who wouldn't wash their hands....
How many of those were purchased in a single order by the Clinton Foundation?
I like how you think.
They weren’t stupid enough to just ‘give’ her $14M were they?
In most cases like this re: a book by a high profile person of note, the money is an ‘advance against sales’. This means if the sales aren’t there, they have to give the proportionate amount back.
Simon and Schuster is owned by Comcast. Comcast has issues before regulators with the potential to save or cost them billions of dollars in the coming decades. 14 mill is chicken poop, a tiny bribe, and the money that it costs will come from consumers, even if they do not use Comcast.
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