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