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Books bought for huge advances by ‘woke’ editors have flopped bigtime, including:
<><>a hotly anticipated “trans” memoir w/ a $3M advance which sold just 68,000 copies
<><>(figure includes 50,000 free copies sent to libraries)
<><>a hyped ‘woke’ diversity flop of bi-racial girls, sold just 3,163 copies since 2021,
<><>a queer feminist Western novel got a $500K advance and sold an anemic 3,500 copies.


12 posted on 11/28/2023 8:07:51 PM PST by Liz (Women have tremendous power — their femininity, because men can't do without it. Sidney Sheldon)
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bought for huge advances by ‘woke’

Grab the money early for laundering into the cause and kickbacks.


15 posted on 11/28/2023 8:13:23 PM PST by Surrounded_too (Low priority)
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It’s the dogs J.B., they just won’t eat it...


24 posted on 11/28/2023 9:40:33 PM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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Bad bargains. Ideology is one thing, but actually selling a book is another.


27 posted on 11/28/2023 10:37:22 PM PST by BlackVeil ('The past is never dead. It's not even past.' William Faulkner)
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