NO BIDS FOR BOOK EXCERPTS Hil book in a bind: Magazines not keen on excerpts

DAILY NEWS ^ | April 30, 2003 | PAUL D. COLFORD

[Just mythoughts]

The "intrigue" is building, everybody oh so quiet.

Maybe they are waiting for a movie deal staring Mad-onna, reason for her downplay of "Material Girl" statement.

The lawyers book club will not let Hillary down.

[laredo44]

Isn't it a little late to be shopping excerpts you don't actually have to magizines that must be out before June 9?

[js1138]

The on-line book sales numbers are misleading as well, since it is possible to CANCEL any such order and get a credit-card refund. That still does not become REAL sales until it's shipped.

The on-line buyers will take delivery. The books will be shipped before the bad reviews come in. This must be quite a balancing act for the publisher -- generating interest without releasing enough of it to reveal how empty it will be.

[Liz]

S&S pressured Hitlery to release the book which wss ghosted eons ago and which she was timimg to her ugly prez ambitions. Then, history caught up with the two Clinton connivers causing furious rewrites.

[Liz]

Maybe they are waiting for a movie deal starring Madonna....

....and it will bomb like her latest film disaster, "Swept Away"..........

[Just mythoughts]

lol 'THERE WILL BE HELL TO PAY' if this book flops.

[Liz]

.....the DNC has already ordered a 20 thousand square foot warehouse to store all of the copies they bought.....

Check to see if the DNC received a Clinton "donation" to make the book purchases.....

Anyone who spots McAwful dragging a U-Haul from bookstore to bookstore should post it here.

[Liz]

Heheh.....probably more of Barbara's books will sell in the wake of Hitlery's atrocity.........

[Just mythoughts]

Good idea leather bound in memory of.

[Liz]

Sure won't be placed on the "Romance" shelves.

[Lee'sGhost]

"I wonder who REALLY bought the greater part of the 75,000"

That would be Babs.

[abner]

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[Mo1]

Bill Clinton's "Between Hope and History," a collection of political views released on the eve of his reelection campaign, became a best-seller and then a big flop

LOL .. I didn't realize he had a book out before

[Liz]

FREEPER ALERT

Book Revue, a bellwether independent store in Huntington, L.I., has ordered "several thousand" copies, according to co-owner Richard Klein. "Sen. Clinton will sign books on June 24, but even if she weren't coming, I would have ordered a lot of copies," he added. "She inspires a great deal of interest and I think it's going to be a powerhouse book."

(1) Start here to confirm the legitimacy of the book "order."
(2) Also, is the putative sale of the books to LI individuals payback for Hitlery's WH pardons, and other WH favors to Dumbocrats?

[js1138]

The order of several thousand copies is a freebie, since the unsold copies can be returned. You can bet that any store that has a book signing by the author gets special treatment from the publisher.

The key numbers will be sales in the third and fourth week.

[Liz]

LOL. Come on, let's have some fun. Let's all go over and make recommendations. LOL.

[300winmag]

The order of several thousand copies is a freebie, since the unsold copies can be returned. You can bet that any store that has a book signing by the author gets special treatment from the publisher.

Another thing to remember that in the publishing business, author advances are based on the expected sales, and profits, the publisher expects. Hitlery's world-record advance assumes world-record profits for S&S.

Typical publishing contracts have a clause for the author returning some of the advance money if the sales don't match expectations. Also, expenses involved in returning unsold books comes out of the author's advance.

Does anyone want to bet whether there is such a standard clause in Hitlery's contract? Or if there is, that it will be enforced? I think her book contract is as big a state secret as her college thesis.

If S&S loses its ass on this deal, it can claim it on its taxes as a bad investment, and the American taxpayer winds up subsidizing an illegal contribution to Hitlery. Is this a great country, or what?

[Liz]

Was such a flop......nobody knew.

[TexanToTheCore]

First Blumenthak, now Hillary with magazine problems. Is their administration that "over"?

[Dante3]

This is a bogus order. Best sellers are listed by copies sold by select bookstores. Some people must be in a panic to make sure her book makes the list.