Posted on 03/12/2010 5:22:21 PM PST by curth
Romney fans, please don't shoot the messenger.
Mitt Romney's book has debuted at #1 atop the NY Times best-seller list among non-fiction hardcover books. However, the NY Times also provides some additional information that may explain how Romney's book hit the #1 spot.
Whenever the NY Times places a "dagger" symbol next to a book, it signifies that "some bookstores report[ed] receiving bulk orders" for the book.
The NY Times placed not just one, but two, daggers next to Romney's book. You can draw your own conclusion as to who it was that purchased Governor Romney's book in bulk.
By contrast, the NY Times failed to place the "dagger" symbol next to Governor Palin's book in any of the weeks she held the top position on the NY Times best-seller list among non-fiction hardcover books. Despite the left's unsubstantiated theories, bookstores did not report to the NY Times that they received bulk orders for Going Rogue. See week 1, week 2, week 3, week 4, week 5, and week 6. As you can see, in none of these weeks is there a dagger symbol next to her book.
Once again, I'm just reporting what I found from the NY Times. Don't shoot the messenger.
What is astounding is that some people just don’t know how to do math. $63K represents only a few thousand copies, which does not place a book anywhere near the best seller list. And also, the reason Palin’s copies didn’t register the dagger is that she purchased them directly from the publisher rather than through a book store where they are counted as scanned sales.
Sarah signed her books and used them as a premium for people who donated a certain amount of money to her PAC.
It doesn’t appear until the Sunday after publication date.
The time for fooling around with RINO’s and marxists who call themselves “Progressives” to hide their marxist agenda (as if that will continue to work forever) is fast coming to a close.
Its a blessed thing that the degenerate slick son of a bitch ROMNEY from a family of cowards is going to try for the GOP nomination because it will once and for all propel a candidate (as yet undetermined) to stop pulling punches and declare WAR ON SOCIALISM.
The candidate must name names, vow to destroy the members of the “Congressional Progressive Caucus” and excoriate geographic areas such as San Francisco and other socialist strongholds as “US AGAINST THEM”
The effin party is over, time to smack down these CPUSA stooges and fellow travelers, put PR mens heads on pikes, and put the fear of God and the sword in the hearts of the ENEMY WITHIN
The big question that still needs to be answered is this one.
What constitutes this phrase from the NYT exactly? How many bookstores and in what numbers. Until we know that, we’re all just blowing smoke, like most threads.
“A dagger (†) indicates that some bookstores report receiving bulk orders.”
I think it’s all irrelevant too, till a month from now, when it’s been out as long as Sarah’s book. Time will tell.
I guess anyone who is slimy and egotistic enough to put his own money into his failing campaign would also buy bulk quantities of his own book in order to get it on the bestsellers’ list.
What a sleazeball.
HEY...HEY...HEY calm down! There a simple explaination. They are all going to charity. They are packing them up and send then to Haiti to be used starting cook fires for the people living in the camps.
The rest are going to Dollar Trees Stores across the nation so the unemployed can buy them.
I guess two daggers (†)(†)indicates that more than just “some” bookstores are reporting bulk orders.
Yep and if I remember right, you got one for the low cost of $100 per copy via a donation to SarahPac.
As a fund raiser this was aces, and the whole story was a typical PDS distorted attack.
I bought my copy the old fashion way, through Amazon. lol.
Remember the Video C4P did “Bear in the Woods”. It was a classic.
The story is spreading:
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2010/03/12/bulk_orders_boosted_romneys_book.html
As I said before, no one would willingly pay the Book Store price for these books if they could buy them directly from the publisher, and anyone purchasing in 10,000 lots certainly could, especially for a fund raiser, why pay a middle man when you are trying to raise funds? Thats insane.
I very much doubt this is in the number unless it is a deliberate attempt to inflate Romney Sales numbers artificially.
Newsmax did the same for Palin's book. You are right this is done often.
Thats it. Hey I was close.
Nothing would surprise me.
True, but this designation is intended like the asterisk on a Baseball players record to note a significant factor that otherwise distorts the Best Seller report because a material number of sales are instead bulk orders placed through book stores rather than directly with the publisher.
You can purchase directly from the publisher in lots of as little as one case so someone purchasing bulk from a bookstore is doing so deliberately.
This reporting and the reason this is noted is that in the past it became a scandal because people were buying their way on to the list. The NYT responded not by removing the book from the list because who is to know why folks are buying this book or that.. but instead it is to note a caution that the book is being sold in bulk in an unusual fashion. The second dagger as I understand is meant to indicate very significant numbers being purchased in bulk through bookstores rather than directly from the publisher.
Ultimately you are going to give up a significant amount of your profit or funds raised by purchasing these books through a book reseller because they make a profit on the sale. If you are only planning to buy 10 copies, the book store may actually be able to give you a deal you can't possibly get from the publisher so you save. But at 10,000, the publisher is going to beat the price you pay at the bookstore even discounted by a significant margin.
plenty of news in NY House races ... MITT is a creep.
Yep. Its news.
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