Posted on 04/24/2018 1:51:14 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
I don’t think it was HIS cc, but someone else’s...and they had already asked for a refund.
How many trees were killed to print that crap?
Thanks for that. Wonder what their “reasoning” is?
In a sign of how fraught and politicized the conversation surrounding the book has become, Amazon limited reviews of “A Higher Loyalty” to Amazon customers who have purchased the book through the site, presumably to prevent trolls and cheerleaders who haven’t read the book from skewing the ratings. Normally, anyone can leave a review of a book without having to purchase it through Amazon. The filter suggests that Amazon noticed that people were flooding the site with political opinions rather than straight book reviews.
“This product currently has limitations on submitting reviews,” a message on the site says. “This may be because we detected unusual review behavior on this product.”
It used to be 10% on the first so many copies, 12 1/2 percent for the next level, and 15% thereafter. Say 5,000, 10,000, 15,000 are the brackets.
Every contract can be different, however, and I haven’t been in that part of book publishing for a long time. That’s % of retail price. Safe to say Comey’s book was quickly in the third bracket. You do the math. I’ll go out and get the Pepto-Bismol.
And it’s not well written.
You can read some writers just for the zippy language, even if you disagree. Not Comey.
Aside from the fact that it lights into Trump from the very first page, the prose is pretty dull. You have to rely on your blood pressure going up in order to feel something other than tedium.
True, but I doubt that many of these are being returned from the bookstores to the publisher. Not now, anyway. It’s one of Barnes & Noble’s best sellers. They’re going out the door, for sure.
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