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 ...
Her campaign got the money, that’s all that matters.
Leftists need book advances because they sure can’t move product based on quality.
People know Hillary’s book is just filled with gas.
You have to be a real sicko to waste time reading a “book” about Slick Willie’s wife. I’ll stick with “U.S. Marshals” that I’m reading now.
If more of Hillary supporters could read
If it is a bomb, is it like plastic explosive that I can put in something I want to blow up? Or, is it more like a smoke bomb making a fog all around it? Something tells me, in fact it is more like a stink ‘bomb’ smelling and skunking up the place...
The doormat is unfit for dog catcher.
Surely a friend could order 100K copies...?
one will. Expect a sudden surge and great secondary reviews.
635 Reviews, 5 star: (177) 4 star: (17) 3 star: (18) 2 star: (24) 1 star: (399)
it is a good way to launder money a la Jim Wright.
Read Hillary's book.....
eat ground glass........
bang my head against the wall repeatedly........
watch paint dry.......
Those are some Hard Choices.
A “bomb” or a stink bomb? Sounds like S&S just assumed that the Clinton brand was a sure sell. What could go wrong?
2.3 stars
there is a history of people like this buying up large quantities of the books to make the sales look better.
Who wrote U.S. Marshals? I couldn’t find it on my library’s website by the title alone.
the SOLE aim of the book was to LAUNDER MONAY —she didn’t write squat..!
The publisher sees this as INSURANCE, that’s all.
Her campaign got the money, thats all that matters.
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