Posted on 02/28/2017 4:10:04 PM PST by drewh
That is exactly what it is.
A way to steal money from stockholders and give it to favorite liberal polititians.
Publishers know they will never recover their money from these outrageous advances.
Simon & Schuster gave Hillary Clinton a $14 million dollar advance for her book "Hard Choices" and the last I read is that they are $10 million dollars in the red on the deal.
Even if the publisher cleared an unlikely $10 a copy on an Obama book they would have to sell 6 million copies to just cover the advance to the Obamas.
Then there are the costs of publishing, distributing, promoting, etc., etc.....
Deferred bribes ... nobody will buy the books, will be at the $2.00 table at Walmart.
Sucker publisher born every day.
Was he all doped up on coke or crack again?
Was he in the hot tub with his 'body man' Reggie Love?
Or did he just not give a damn?
I would spend some money if, in return, they would just go away and I never have to see his stupid mug or hear his boring, lying, droning, ummm, uhhhh, ummmm voice again!
I won’t be reading it.
And another 100,000 copies will go to the bottom of the ocean. Shhhhh! Don’t tell the Envirowhackos.
Its the INTERNATIONAL publishing rights that are where the big money can be made on book sales.
Just like with movies. 2016’s top grossing movie was Captain America: Civil War ($1 billion, 153 million in sales).
The movie made 35% of its gross sales in the U.S. ($408 million) and 65% overseas ($745 million).
I’m guessing Iran is going to funnel back some of those unmarked bills that landed on skids.
Was all part of the deal.
Another book of lies, no doubt
Tax write-off for the publisher.
Very suspicious transaction. No way they’ll sell more than a few thousand books, so the sellers are washing a lot of money.
They are selling their names basically. Advertising for a few years. 2 hardcovers and 2 softcovers. I’m sure the publisher will stretch that out over years and have the kenyan as the front man on their publications/PR.
I divided $60,000,000 by $29.99 and came up with a little over two million. I figured half went to the retailer so that’s four million. Others can check my math.
Shouldn’t they just receive a percentage of the earnings, why pay more then the memoir is apt to earn.
I’m in Orange County. Most of my neighbors are on the right. LA and SF is where the lefties roam the earth like dinosaurs unaware of the comet hurtling toward the planet.
[Money laundering for favors???]
Exactly. Who needs a “foundation”
If I was a stockholder I would sell my shares. This will be a huge loss and the Publisher should be fired immediately for signing that deal.
What would be the point?
There are a couple of dozen books, all documented and unchallenged, and painfully descriptive of the 'Movin Up' Chicago thug couple.
Who wants to read fiction, like Omugabe is actually Kunta Kinte's Great-great-great-etc Grandson? And the First Saquatch is a far descendant of Lucy from the Afar Triangle of Ethiopia... also of royal blood.
Someone hopes they’ll tell the truth. They won’t. The Clintons didn’t.
I think it was it P.T. Barnum who said, “There’s a sucker born every minute.” Never more true than now.
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