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Publishing Source: Hillary Book a 'Bomb'
Weekly Standard ^

Posted on 06/16/2014 6:54:44 PM PDT by bryan999

In an email this evening, a veteran publishing source calls the latest Hillary Clinton book, Hard Choices, a memoir of her State Department years, a "bomb." The source is referring to the early but underwhelming sales figures.

"Between us, they are nervous at S&S [Simon & Schuster]," says the source, who gave permission for his email to be published. "Sales were well below expectations and the media was a disaster."

According to this source, a Simon & Schuster insider, "They sold 60,000 hard covers first week and 24,000 ebooks." The publishing house was "hoping and praying for 150,000 print first week."

(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...


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To: bryan999

Liberals routinely write snoozers. Why do publishers keep propping them up???


101 posted on 06/17/2014 1:33:48 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: all the best

Hillary: “Royalties will cover. Riiiight, Comrade Publisher???”


102 posted on 06/17/2014 1:39:50 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: martin_fierro

Hard Choices. Light Reading.


103 posted on 06/17/2014 1:41:41 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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106 posted on 06/17/2014 2:32:53 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: GenXFreedomFighter

“Barbara Olson died on 9/11.”

Geez, I feel so stupid........

Wonder what Hillary thought when she heard the news?


107 posted on 06/17/2014 3:24:00 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: bryan999

Here is a much better book to read:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Republic-Texas-2022-Freedom/dp/1631221221/ref=tmm_pap_title_0

Pray America wakes up


108 posted on 06/17/2014 6:03:18 AM PDT by bray (Palin/Putin 2016)
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To: martin_fierro

You can buy it her book at Fred Meyer for $5.99 at the cash register and still not moving. Hope she gets the nomination.


109 posted on 06/17/2014 6:08:53 AM PDT by bray (Palin/Putin 2016)
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To: bryan999

Didn’t take long for the bloom to leave the rose.......expect unions to organize a big book buying campaign!!!


110 posted on 06/17/2014 6:43:21 AM PDT by ontap
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To: elcid1970

Probably the same as DUmmieland. This was one of the more tame threads on the subject at the time. Lost the really vile ones in a computer crash.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x1436121


111 posted on 06/17/2014 6:52:16 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (Liberals make unrealistic demands on reality and reality doesn't oblige them.)
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