Posted on 07/14/2009 8:22:42 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
At a time when publishers are scrambling to keep customers willing to pay $26 for a hardcover book instead of $9.99 for an electronic version, the publisher of Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s forthcoming memoir is going in the opposite direction - issuing a limited edition it plans to sell for $1,000 a copy.
Twelve, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing, is planning to issue 1,000 copies of a leather-bound, electronically signed edition of “True Compass’’ and sell them through the website of Hachette Book Group, the parent company of Grand Central. Although publishers and licensed contractors do occasionally produce collectors’ editions on various titles, such a premium version is quite rare.
Kennedy, 77, reportedly received an $8 million advance for the memoir that he wrote in collaboration with Ron Powers, an author of “Flags of Our Fathers,’’ about the Marines who raised the US flag at Iwo Jima during World War II, and other biographies. Kennedy’s book was originally scheduled for a 2010 publication date. Twelve is now planning to release the regular hardcover edition on Oct. 6, with a retail list price of $35. It is planning an initial print run of 1.5 million copies.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Oh, puke....I wouldn’t even use it for TP....
Much too much to pay for toilet paper!!!
HA...
Ah.
I thought it was $1 a copy.
And I thought it was overpriced, at that.
(Not kidding on either count.)
The math ain’t right... 1,000 copies X $1,000 is $1 million... and if the Swimmer is getting $8 million... is this another one of those stimulus programs?
Want a good Teddy book, find “Teddy Bare”, that was the last book I read about him and I don’t care to read anymore of them. To think there are people in this country that actually wanted him as President. Probably the same types that elected our current leader.
And I thought the evil Republicans were supposed to be the ones with money and time to throw away on frivolous nonsense?
Anyone stupid enough to fork over $1,000 for a common book of the written swill of Edward Kennedy is too stupid to read it.
if the pages are not sufficiently soft and absorbant, it will fail.
“Twelve is now planning to release the regular hardcover edition on Oct. 6, with a retail list price of $35. It is planning an initial print run of 1.5 million copies.”
Ok, 10 posts and nobody noticed.....
“Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s forthcoming memoir ..... and sell them through ...Hachette Book Group,...”
I believe they are printing 3.5 million hardcover copies @ $35 oer...
Will any of the book sale proceeds go to Mary Jo’s family?
How many pages are devoted to his bridge indicent?
That’s the only real accomplishment that sick sob has had in life, and it resulted in an innocent death.
MyGawd, the Kennedies are such a vapid, loathsome, and utterly unaccomplished band of vermin.
Ah! I see, they are marketing 2 products... I imagine the libraries will scoop up all the books...
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