Hillary Clinton's Memoirs to Hit Stores

Yahoo ^ | April 28, 2003

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

WASHINGTON - After laying out a seven-figure advance for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (news - web sites)'s memoirs, her publishers are counting on seven-figure sales.

The account of her years in the White House will have a first printing of 1 million copies, her lawyer told The Associated Press. The 576-page book, entitled "Living History," is scheduled for release June 9. An audio version, read by Clinton, will be released the same day.

"Only a small handful of books have a 1-million-copy first printing, and I cannot think of another nonfiction book in recent history that has had that large a first printing," Robert Barnett, Clinton's lawyer, said Sunday.

The first lady-turned senator was paid an $8 million advance by Simon & Schuster. Foreign rights have already been sold in 16 countries, from South America to Europe to Asia.

The list price for the book, according to online seller amazon.com, is $28.

The book, which took two years to write, will be billed as a "complete and candid" accounting of her years in the White House, from the health care debate to impeachment to the launching of her own political campaign in 2000.

[L_Von_Mises]

1 million copies... Is she taking a page from the Jim Wright school of marketing?

Yeah, 900,000 to the NEA and the rest to the dollar store.

[aruanan]

Hillary Clinton's Memoirs to Hit Stores

So, in the above, "stores" is the "fan" part of the expression.

[Stultis]

LOL! (Click back to Doc's msg 46)

[Howlin]

Chapter 2: Who hired Craign Livingstone?

[aruanan]

You got that Spy magazine cover of Hillary in leather gear?

[scott7278]

They look like cardboard cutouts, don't they?

Either that, or it's the ending of "The Shining."

[webstersII]

"Living History"?? Good grief; that's over the top, even for her. Her hubris knows no bounds.

576 pages?? I can't imagine anyone's autobiography being that long and actually being interesting, much less her story.

[ErnBatavia]

I better reserve my copy before they are all sold out. heh...

Wait a month or so - it'll be on the same table as the Gore books...right here:

[Carolinamom]

I wasn't aware that $8,000,000 would cure amnesia.

[Maelstrom]

I heard it was a short story...

"I do not recall."

[Maelstrom]

what does this say about the recent gossip that he book wasn't even started and had no title?

That the gossip was true. A class of freshman undergrads from the inner city each wrote a chapter in a single day and then it was published.

[Mo1]

I wasn't aware that $8,000,000 would cure amnesia.

It doesn't .. but a lot of bad PR does

Amazing how she can write a book in less the a weeks time ain't it?

[Maelstrom]

Crap!

Don't you realize this book thing was the implementation of what they accused Newt Gingrich of doing almost a decade ago?

It was a political bribe given the veneer of legitimacy through the proclamation of a bood deal.

[tangerine]

76 pages of as you say and 500 pages of "you know".

[bootyist-monk]

Amazon.com Sales Rank: 1,032

Algore would be soooooooo jealous.

[doug from upland]

If she didn't write a chapter on Juanita Broaddrick, I will write one for her.

[1poedpatriot]

not to worry, those who would be interested in this " slop " can not read !

[1poedpatriot]

not to worry, those who would be interested in this " slop " can not read !

[FreedomCalls]

I'll bet it is in very large print and has less than 100 pages.