But the point was to fund her campaign so what’s the problem?
This is the NY Post article referenced:
http://pagesix.com/2014/07/08/execs-on-notice-after-hillarys-book-sales-tank/
Apparently a million copies were shipped by the publisher on consignment.
Next stop: Bargain bin.
Perhaps Costco should carry the book...
Wow. Shipped a million books, but only sold 16% of them???
I know nothing about publishing but figure somebody somewhere missed their goals by a mile. Somebody somewhere had to greenlight giving Hillary All that money up front, and now looks foolish.
They just need to raise the price to about $100 per copy. Thennnnnn the wiseguys who failed to buy at the initial “teaser” price will feel left out and rush to buy before the next price bump. Yeah, that’s the ticket!
I think a lot of people who give money to the Clintons end up in this same kind of spot, but they must like getting hosed for their money.
They’re from New York, so they’re no dummies.
I think someone or maybe a few someones at Simon & Schuster will be looking for jobs.
I have been faced with the hard choice of whether or not to buy that book.
The book publishing is completely incidental.
This is simply money laundering for naked political bribery.
I wonder where they went.
$14,000,000. for 161,000 hard copies. That is $99.38 per sold copy.
I am beginning to believe that she really is the smartest woman in the World.
Just consider it a $14 million campaign contribution from See Bee Ess Corp.
I think they knew it would never sell enough copies to recoup the millions they paid her. It was another way for rich east coast elites to give her money for her upcoming campaign.
How many millions would it have to had sold to make any profit at all? 4 million? 5 million? 6 million??
Everyone (except conservatives) thought Hillary’s book would be a big seller and that is why Costco had so many at their locations. Her book has been out for a month and you can anticipate it being removed by Costco VERY soon.
That said, I would stand in a long line, for a long time and pay the $99 in order to NOT buy it.
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$14,000,000 to make things up to (unsuccessfully) make yourself look good? I wish I was so lucky
To put this in perspective, Stephen King's book Doctor Sleep only had an initial print run of 1.1 million books. And Stephen King has sold over 350 million books.
To give that level of advance to someone who is not one of the top five fiction writers in the world is completely irresponsible and should cost a lot of people their jobs.
She will never be president. She is a has been that never was. Too old, too sick, and her time as SoS does not reflect well on her. She now has a track record and it’s not good. Sorry, Hill, Obama stole your thunder.
The doormat’s ghost written book is total fail.