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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“Break even might be closer to a million. Even at $35 printing costs and stuff are going to eat a bunch”
I’m sure S&S is picking up the USA/Euro Book tour as well, and the Queen isn’t cheap.
They paid her the money for political reasons. They all deserve to be fired, including the one at the top.
...if I were running against her (in the Primary or General), I would file a complaint with the FEC saying that was an illegal contribution, and that she has to return most of the money. It’s no different than if she were paid $1M per hour for 14 hours of “consulting” - it is illegal.
...and it may have “legs” in Primary season, as all it takes is a phone call from Obama, whose not so hot on her in the first place, to get things moving.
You can find this trash at Sam’s Wall Mart, waiting for some ignorant mentally handicapped retards to pick one up and buy it.
This is typical Lib mis-direction.
The $16 million was a campaign contribution and nothing more (from CBS, the publisher’s owner.)
And Clinton even had the Oprah book club seal of approval.
Wasn’t she give 14 million upfront? I doubt she cares if the books sells.
Apparently “Hard Choices” is a #1 bestseller on Amazon in the “Gender Studies” category. I’m not making this up, I swear.
That begs the question: highly anticipated by whom? Certainly not the book-buying public.
I respectfully suggest you underestimate the devious nature of the Clintons.
They care little for the people they profess to care about. They will not spend their own money to get elected (limousine liberals will provide them more than enough, anyhow).
The $14 million is for them, not the campaign.
This is personal enrichment, pure and simple.
Remember, she knows what it’s like to be flat broke and busted, down to their last few million bucks.
No....all the cash Clintons make goes to a foundation. The Clinton foundation. And you can bet that the Clintons will see to it that all moneys earned goes to worthy causes.
Oh SHE doesn’t care, she’s gone with the wind & the dough. It’s the publisher who’s probably out, oh, maybe $12-$13 million or so. I have no illusion that Hillary Clinton thinks her book and the advance are anything but a big fat backhand contribution.
Any guesstimates as to what the production & distribution costs of 1,000,000 books would be?
Does anyone know what the margin is per book? How much does a publisher like this make per book, and how many copies would they have to sell to cover the $14m ‘advance’? Also, calling it an ‘advance’ means that it is basically front-loaded royalties. If the book doesn’t even sell a million copies, does she have to give the money back?
Provided that that type of information (tracking how much of a book is actually read) is anonymized, I wouldn’t have any trouble with it. The problem, of course, is that it very likely isn’t. I have a nook account for those rare times I buy books from them. The first thing I do when I download a new book that I buy through it is to strip the encryption off of it so I can read it elsewhere.
I buy most of my fiction from Baen (baen.com). They don’t do DRM, and make their books available in just about every format you can imagine.
The problem is the granularity of the information. E.g., a percent-read metric would be a cool thing to add to a book's Amazon page.
And obviously, when it comes to the reviews, breaking percent-read down by number of stars awarded and helpfulness of review would be even cooler. Aw shucks, why not by individual reviewer? It's a slippery slope.
Amazon's computer is already quite helpful in sorting through the Hildebeest's now 1308 reviews. You simply can't go wrong:
I posted that screen shot a couple of days ago, at 1260 reviews. Jeff's computer picked out the same pair of most helpful reviews both times. Given his love for Patty Murray, I wonder if he even knows what it's doing.
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