Simon & Schuster Sees Lewinsky-Free Hillary Book as Million Seller

NewsMax.com ^ | 4/28/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[kattracks]

Hillary Clinton's White House memoirs are apparently ready to go, reports last month to the contrary, with her publisher, Simon & Schuster, preparing a whopping million-copy initial press run.

Titled "Living History," Mrs. Clinton's 576-page tome is set to hit bookstores on June 9, with an audio version read by Hillary herself planned for release the same day.

The book will be billed as a "complete and candid" accounting of her years as first lady, from the health care debate to impeachment to the launching of her own political career, reports the Associated Press.

But others familiar with the project say that New York's junior senator has gone back on her pledge to write a true tell-all, and will gloss over the juicy details of her husband's affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky and relationships with dozens of other women that have threatened to sink their marriage.

"Much of it - especially as she relives those early years - is touching and delicious," reported the New York Post's Cindy Adams two weeks ago. "And whoever's seen it, loves it. However, those close to the manuscript are saying that, unfortunately, she won't tell the seamy slimy stuff."

Rumors have swirled since Clinton inked her deal for an $8 million advance that she figured her marriage to Bill would be over by publication date - and that dishing more dirt could only generate more sympathy and give her ambitions for higher office a boost.

But with a Clinton divorce not in the cards, Hillary decided not to get into her private life as a first lady scorned.

"Why would she?" noted Adams. "She's going to rise higher in public life. ... Telling how her guts turned during Operation Monica is not statesmanlike. 'They' want the Vince Foster truth. More of the Bill and Hill inside."

"This she isn't doing," insisted the Post's gossip maven.

"Those who love her say she doesn't need the money and should give back her $2.whatever mil advance," says Adams, which sounds like a veiled threat to Simon & Schuster to take the sanitized version of Hillary's book - or forget about the whole project.

Luckily for New York's junior senator, the bluff apparently worked.

"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," boasted Clinton lawyer Robert Barnett to the AP.

For readers interested in a fuller account of the inside story, "Living History" won't be the only Clinton book in stores this summer. "Hillary's Scheme," by NewsMax.com's Carl Limbacher, is due out on Aug. 5, and will be chock full of information Mrs. Clinton won't be covering in her sanitized screed.

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[Busywhiskers]

Maybe the DNC and supportive unions will use the L. Ron Hubbard book marketing method. They will just buy up enough books to keep the honorable Senator Clinton on the best seller list and then send the books off to be pulped, or given away, (or resold to the publisher under the guise of a reprint).

Seems like Texas congressman Jim Wright used a similar scam to funnel money from to himself from unions.

It would serve two goals. It would make Clinton look important and interesting because she has written a best seller giving a boost to her political prospects. It would also provide a way for the cooperative to buy influence with her by putting a few buck in her pocket via royalties.

[mombonn]

Yes, left-wing knotheads...

Left-wing knotheads don't spend their own money - with their sense of entitlement, they will expect to be given a copy.

[samanella]

Is it fiction or non-fiction?

[discostu]

I forgot another great page adder: indexes. A comprehensive index can add upwards of 50 pages. With proper use of these techniques you can add somewhere between 1/4 to a 1/3 to a book. Which is important from S&S's perspective because they need to net $8 a book to make money on this deal, more pages means higher price (and it's not in an easy curve that would match the higher production costs).

[goodnesswins]

I'm sure her "minions" have already arranged for the purchase in bulk of thousands....to be shoved into a basement (or onto unwilling union members)...ala other Dem legislators of the past (can't think of his name right now, but I think it was "Wright" who did this.)

[Marysecretary]

"touching and delicious?" Sounds like a cookbook. I sure won't be buying it, not even when it's in the 99 cent bin. Anything with her picture on it would keep me far away.

[quark]

Left-wing knotheads don't spend their own money - with their sense of entitlement, they will expect to be given a copy.

Or at a minimum, they'll itemize the expense on their tax returns, similar to Hellery's deduction of DIRT-X-POTUS42's skid-marked U-trou...

[martin_fierro]

[martin_fierro]

Ping!

[brownie]

There's no doubt in my mind that various Hillary supporters, including wealth individuals, PACs, and other left-wing groups will buy the book by the caseload to ensure it is a best-seller. The Clinton machine is too well oiled to allow this book to be released without it becoming a best-seller, much like "It Takes a Village". I don't know anyone (including many leftist friends) who purchased or even read that book, yet it was on the best-seller list for a while.

[bert]

What this world needs are hundreds and perhaps thousands of rubber stamps.....http://www.alamo-girl.com/

Dedicated individuals should then visit book stores and stamp the truth inside the cover of all Hillary books.

[pepsi_junkie]

that's not airbrushed, that's from her 1963 photo session for "A Hard Day's Night". Sadly for Hillary, she was kicked out of the band just prior to the release of the album because the other Beatles were tired of her getting all the girls, and the photo was never used. Until now.

[SuziQ]

However, those close to the manuscript are saying that, unfortunately, she won't tell the seamy slimy stuff."

It must be a pretty short book then!

[SuziQ]

they are never going to legimately sell all these books

Maybe she'll do a 'Jim Wright' deal with the unions.

[NEWwoman]

From my cold, dead hands...

Viva Charlton Heston! (Excuse my French.)

[NEWwoman]

Can't wait for it to apprear in the New Websters Dictionary for the 21st century.

[BossLady]

Also....quotes from others to open chapters....this takes up at least half a page if not more!!! :o

[lowbridge]

However, those close to the manuscript are saying that, unfortunately, she won't tell the seamy slimy stuff."

It must be a pretty short book then!

Nah. As I understand it, it's 576 pages. That comes to about 20 "cannot recall"'s for each page.

[N. Theknow]

The real airbrush job can't be seen. It was administered to each ear.

[Uncle Hal]

I do not see, even liberals, buying this book. If there is no scandal in the book, absolutely no body is going to waste $28 on this book. The publisher is going to take a huge hit on this.