Lucianne Goldberg: Hillary's Book Sales 'Way Below 200,000'

NewsMax.com ^ | 6/14/03 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

[2rightsleftcoast]

I was in Costco the other day too. Plenty of Hillary books there, saw some people looking at them. I bought Guilliani's book instead. Was hoping to make his numbers go up as hers go down.

[kellynla]

The eight million is an advance. No strings attached as long as she produces a book. I just checked the NY Slimes best seller list and Hitlery's book did not make the top 35 so I don't know how her book could be such a hot seller and not even be on the top thirty five nonfiction list????
Maybe Bubba didn't buy enough books last Monday??

[TC Rider]

I actually saw one person pick up her heinous' book and then put it back.

That was me. I checked the index, then went to see what she had to say about Filegate. Blah blah blah nothing there. A few short paragraphs blaming Starr, then "As Senator.."

From flipping through, there seems to be a lot "As Senator.." passages.

[DPB101]

Media standards sure have taken a nose dive. Remember when Newt took a $400,000 advance on a book and the press hounded him until he agreed to, I believe, only be paid royalties on the books sold? As I recall, Republicans and Democrats were disappointed in Newt profiting off his tenure in congress.

[joesbucks]

It's ranked #2 on Amazon.

[MichiganCheese]

Imagine that. Lying about how well the lies are selling.

[Political Junkie Too]

I just saw the book at a Borders with a 30% off sticker on it.

-PJ

[BlueNgold]

The $8 Million, as I understand it, was the contract value.

From CNN.com - 11 June 2003:
Publisher Simon and Schuster said nationwide sales were about 200,000 since the book went on sale Monday. Clinton was paid a $2.85 million advance as part of an $8 million deal.

Even the advance amount was hype designed to garner headlines.

[BlueNgold]

Newt's advance was an initial $400k with advance payments totalling more than $4.5MM. His book deal was massive. He returned all but $1.00 of the advance and restructered his deal into royalties only and still made his 'contract value' in the end.

[kellynla]

Well if you are correct I stand corrected. The word throughot the industry was eight million. Period. As long as she produced a book. Of course what she produced is a sad excuse for a book. But that is for someone else to critique who is foolish enough to buy it and read it.

[teancumspirit]

I went to barnes and noble in Lynnwood Wa, sat where I could see the display and pile of wasted paper. 2 hours durinng the day watching and reading, I saw 2 maybe three of her books sold. Its a big store in a demacrat neiborhood, no way did they sell 200k nationwide.

[SkyPilot]

People of Neeeww Yaaawwwk! I can fit 3 regulation sizes of these into my mouth!!

[BlueNgold]

Not trying to 'correct' anyone. Actually I was trying to point out that the $8MM hyped in fall of 2000 was nothing more than splash and flash designed to get headlines and exposure. The whole deal is a sham IMHO. S&S made a huge contribution to help finance the Clinton move to NY, which in effect was a campaign contribution since the move was required to allow her run for the Senate. Note the resurrection of the VRWC in her interviews - I believe they are already setting up the excuse for poor sales when her book hits the discount racks.

[Rockpile]

Firstly-------shouldn't some of our resident doofi who are always bashing Limbacher and NewsMax be rushing in here to attack this story? {and of course, indirectly defend their goddess Hillary}?

Anyway, I spent a couple of hours in Barnes and Noble on Wednesday. It was pretty busy and they sold two of her tomes before I left. The kid that checked me out said he hadn't handled any himself and that they had gotten "a lot of them" in. They had the 28 buck book marked at 20 % off I believe. It was the first thing you saw upon entering.

Sam's had 103 copies on prominent display at $16.32 a copy. Did not recount them before leaving.

On another note, we are in the age of Just In Time Inventory. Does it make any kind of business sense for a publisher to print a MILLION copies of a book without firm sales commitments? Wonder if the printing plant employees have been sworn to secrecy?

[duvausa]

As I understand it, the NYTimes list is usually a week behind--that is, the list you see this Sunday represents sales from June 1-7.

[CurlyDave]

So let's assume the book of lies is being sold at 3500 stores total.

I bet you a nickel the S&S is counting the books they sold to those 3500+ retail outlets as "sales".

[AIRFORCE76]

Correct. But this is just the set-up for Boy Clinton and his thousand pages of trash. He will undoubtedly back-up her version of every event and explain that the VRWC prevented the co-presidents from taking over one seventh of the national economy, catching bin Laden, saving the WTC, blah, blah, blah, blah........

[eeman]

Wonder if the printing plant employees have been sworn to secrecy?

You already know what happens to the ones who do not vow to secrecy. They become another tragic statistic of.......Arkancide

[katze]

"Now marked down to $15.88"

Great news. On Monday last week, our Kroger flyer advertised for $21 for the first day's sale.

If Lucianne says it, I'll believe it.

[wayne_shrugged]

She really ought to see a dentist -- there's evidence of tooth decay on one of her fangs.