Cuomo Sells 945 Copies of Book; Paid Over $700,000 Advance

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[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Cuomo Sells 945 Copies of Book; Paid Over $700,000 Advance

BY DANIEL HALPER

Andrew Cuomo's book is a dud. The memoir, released last week, has sold 945 hardcover copies in its first week of sales, Amy Chozick of the New York Times reports.

"Andrew Cuomo's memoir sold 945 hardcovers in first week on shelves, according to BookScan. That's right, guys, 945 copies," writes Chozick on Twitter.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

A friend of mine has been trying to get a book deal for the past 5 years and he gets kinds of excuses "It won't sell - its not what we are looking for" Yet these same publishing companies have no problem burning tons of money for these wacko lib politicians. What is the point? If they are so eager to burn money like this then how about donating some of that to Wounded Warriors or St. Judes hospital for kids instead of giving millions to Hitlery or Evil eyes Cuomo so they can write a book that sells 2 copies?

[C19fan]

The publishers pay out as protection money.

[going hot]

Bwahahahaha! No other comment needed.

[Ouchthatonehurt]

That’s a $740 book not even counting printing costs.

[albie]

Maybe they’re $800.00 a copy?

[PGR88]

What’s the Title?

How I caused the great financial melt-down of 2007?

[LS]

Yeah, this stuff makes me sick. One of my books sold 55,000 copies and the publisher considered it a flop, because they over published.

I've never had a book go under 10,000 copies, most go over 20,000 and of course Patriot's History is over a quarter million---maybe 1/3 million copies and in its 20th printing!

[Obadiah]

Okay, so basically outside of his immediate family and his political appointees, three people bought the book. Only two people if you subtract the book given to de Blasio.

Bwahahahaha!.....

[SharpRightTurn]

Cuomo—a dud in every respect.

[RckyRaCoCo]

...but his girlfriend makes a mean kwanzaa cake...

[NewHampshireDuo]

The book’s a hit. You just have to get the ratings category correct. On Amazon:

#1 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Politics & Government > Elections & Political Process > Leadership > Hacks > New York > Books by Andrew Cuomo

[Norm Lenhart]

Just look and see how much money the modern buggy whip industry has coming in the back door from DNC connected sources.

Can y’all say ‘money laundering’? I knew you could!

[Blood of Tyrants]

The advance had nothing to do with projected sales. It was a payoff for being a good liberal.

[JPG]

I writes good. I smart. Please, buy my book.

[Timber Rattler]

They’re laundering money to potential Rat presidential candidates in the hope of cashing in later.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

WOw are you kidding? If you don’t mind me asking how did you get a book deal? How did you get started? I never read my friends book so I don’t know how good it is, but I would assume being a very good writer is a great help.

[ArcadeQuarters]

Paid Received a political donation of over $700,000 Advance

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

LOL! And you ever notice every book that comes out they always seem to have at the top of the cover “New York Times #1 best seller” ? If they’re all #1 then what is #2? Nothing?

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

It gets me sick, they are using a government job to enrich themselves.

[LS]

I've published close to 30 books, including two novels. I began by writing a history of banking in Arizona, and got a deal for royalties only with a university press. Slowly I got to where I could get a small advance from academic presses. Then, in the 1990s, I began writing commercial books.

When we published "A Patriot's History of the United States" in 2004, we had two bidders, and went with Sentinel. We got a good deal---far better than we thought we'd get.

The book did well, getting Wall Street J. and NYTimes reviews, and they asked me for a follow up. That book was "America's Victories." We shipped out a lot, but this was 2006, and when the war turned down some, the bookstores returned a lot. So the publisher let that one go out of print. But my 3d book with them was a huge hit, "48 Liberal Lies." I got a good advance, but it sold even better. True: I had one guy who saw me on "Fox and Friends" who called me and wanted to give one copy to every legislator. I thought he meant in Washington. He said, "No, every legislator in America." I thought he was a kook. I said, "That will be expensive." He said, "How much you think $100,000 will get us?" He personally bought 7,680 copies, and I signed every one, and we sent one to every legislator in the USA.

Eventually, that book sold close to 60,000 copies, but because it was steady and not a burst, it never once made the NYTimes bestseller list. Then came "Seven Events that Made America," which did really really well, only the publisher printed 110,000 copies because they thought my appearance on Glenn Beck would cause it to skyrocket. As I said, it made the NYTimes and sold over 50,000, but it's not viewed as a "hit."

My most recent two books---two volumes of "A Patriot's History of the Modern World, vol. 1 and 2,"---has done about 10,000, but again, is viewed as a flop (even though volume 2 has a $35 price tag!). My novels have done ok---no publicity at all, print on demand, but I like them.