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New York publishers shift right in a drive for readers [More books with a conservative bent] (AP)
AP ^ | 5/21/03 | Hillel Italie

Posted on 05/24/2003 6:02:45 AM PDT by summer

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:09:55 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

NEW YORK -- The success of Ann Coulter, Michael Savage, and other conservative authors has led many publishers to turn more to the right.

The operators of the Book-of-the-Month Club announced yesterday that they are forming a new club, as yet unnamed, devoted to works with a conservative point of view. Within the past month, Penguin Putnam and the Crown Publishing Group have started branches with a conservative bent.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: authors; books; conservative; consumers; ny; publishing
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The operators of the Book-of-the-Month Club announced yesterday that they are forming a new club, as yet unnamed, devoted to works with a conservative point of view. Within the past month, Penguin Putnam and the Crown Publishing Group have started branches with a conservative bent.

It will be interesting to see if any tv or radio hosts pick up on this trend, and start boradcasting a book of the month chat, like Oprah did -- but, with a conservative bent.
1 posted on 05/24/2003 6:02:45 AM PDT by summer
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To: summer
boradcasting = broadcasting
2 posted on 05/24/2003 6:03:35 AM PDT by summer
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To: summer
''We don't think we've done enough in this area. We have featured conservative authors like Bill Bennett, but we've never presented them in a coherent way,''

Translation: Ka-ching!

3 posted on 05/24/2003 6:04:55 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: All
From Publishers Weekly:

Right Turn at Two Largest NY Publishing Houses
4 posted on 05/24/2003 6:06:46 AM PDT by summer
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To: IronJack
I just like the fact that they're admitting their anti-Right bias so openly.
5 posted on 05/24/2003 6:07:10 AM PDT by Teacher317
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To: IronJack
LOL... :)
6 posted on 05/24/2003 6:07:12 AM PDT by summer
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To: summer
We don't think we've done enough in this area.

What? You've been toadies for the left and now you want to come over and play nice? Buzzz off.

7 posted on 05/24/2003 6:15:54 AM PDT by Drango (There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those that understand binaries, and those that don't.)
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''I expect there will be a feeding frenzy for certain books, and I expect New York will overpay . . . and write the kinds of big checks we won't be willing to write,'' says Marji Ross, Regnery publisher.

Does this mean conservative authors are likely to get $8 million advances on their books?

8 posted on 05/24/2003 6:20:27 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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To: Drango
What? You've been toadies for the left and now you want to come over and play nice? Buzzz off.

Oh, I disagree with you, Drango. Anytime publishers are willing to put their promotional budgets and distribution channels behind a property, that book's subject matter will usually enjoy greater influence with a wider audience. Consequently, conservatives can only benefit from this new trend.
9 posted on 05/24/2003 6:28:59 AM PDT by summer
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To: Paleo Conservative
RE your post #8 - Maybe...
10 posted on 05/24/2003 6:29:37 AM PDT by summer
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To: summer
Consequently, conservatives can only benefit from this new trend.

True, and it's good, but it's don't be fooled into thinking they are on our side. If you put lipstick and a dress on a pig, it's still a pig.

11 posted on 05/24/2003 6:32:31 AM PDT by Drango (There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those that understand binaries, and those that don't.)
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To: summer
Proof that life long liberals (like New York publishers) can EVENTUALLY follow the smell of money.

Degenerate, liberal trust baby families cannot, however, because their economic futures are not tied to reality, but to the hoard of nuts grandpa squirreled away.
12 posted on 05/24/2003 6:37:24 AM PDT by Semi Civil Servant
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To: Drango
It sounds like the Book-of-the-Month Club is trying to isolate conservative books into a seperate catagory and out of the mainstream.
13 posted on 05/24/2003 6:37:36 AM PDT by Welsh Rabbit
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To: Drango
LOL....well, money talks. A best seller is a best seller, and even publishers would agree on that. But, I do see this current trend as a real change, when one considers how Ann Coulter said she had difficulty finding a publisher for her recent best seller, "Slander."
14 posted on 05/24/2003 6:38:37 AM PDT by summer
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To: Welsh Rabbit; summer
the Book-of-the-Month Club is trying to isolate conservative books . . . [from] the mainstream.
Sure does sound like it . . . but I agree that it's good to see the mainstream publishers admitting that they've been leaving $$$ on the table.

From my POV journalism's short deadlines, superficiality, and negativity saturate the niche for anticonservatism--and the book format with its much longer development cycle is the natural habitat for conservative publication. So it has long seemed odd to me that conservatism hasn't completely dominated nonfiction book publishing--never mind being discriminated against by the mainstream publishers.


15 posted on 05/24/2003 7:05:39 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion
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To: summer
Gee, I wonder why.

The publishing houses should have gotten a clue like eleven years ago when Rush Limbaugh's first book The Way Things Ought To Be became a huge bestseller in hardback. The fact that Bernard Goldberg's Bias, Ann Coulter's Slander, Sean Hannity's Let Freedom Ring, and Michael "Savage" Weiner's The Savage Nation became massively huge bestsellers in hardback speaks many volumes (quite literally) about why Americans really want more conservative authors.

16 posted on 05/24/2003 7:40:20 AM PDT by RayChuang88
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The publishing houses should have gotten a clue like eleven years ago when Rush Limbaugh's first book The Way Things Ought To Be became a huge bestseller in hardback. ...

Good point.
17 posted on 05/24/2003 7:41:59 AM PDT by summer
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To: summer
At least, with this, they're admitting that we conservatives actually know how to read. Not sure they'd have been so forthcoming with that until now.
18 posted on 05/24/2003 7:53:50 AM PDT by bluebeowulf
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To: summer
They have finally learned that, contrary to the liberal propaganda, conservatives can read after all.
19 posted on 05/24/2003 8:11:05 AM PDT by reg45
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To: summer
Just a bunch of Liberals seeing where the money is. We used to call em whores in the old days.
20 posted on 05/24/2003 8:32:31 AM PDT by fish hawk
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