Couldnt happen to a nicer person.
1 posted on
07/21/2003 9:36:30 AM PDT by
ewing
To: ewing
You should have posted a hysterical laughter alert on this one.
To: ewing
It's time for Hillary! and Daschle to release a joint statement about the publisher's lay-offs saying that they are deeply saddened, and they want Congress to investigate the Bush administration and find out who is at fault, at once.
3 posted on
07/21/2003 9:42:06 AM PDT by
Pan_Yans Wife
(Lurking since 2000.)
To: ewing
More Clinton crony looting.
The National Treasury.
The White House.
Air Force One.
The USS Theodore Roosevelt.
Global Crossing.
Simon and Schuster.
-PJ
To: ewing
Well, the question is whether the 8 million buckaroos were a good investment from the point of view of Simon and Schuster. I put the breakeven point on this at right around 3 million copies (assuming, very roughly, that the author normally makes 10-15% on hardbounds and that the book sells for an average of about $20 a copy). It was a bad bet, but it wasn't
that bad a bet. It simply needed to be a better book, but you can't tell that at the time of writing an advance check.
So it turned out to be pretty much what many of us had predicted - a means for that company to put $8 million into the hands of a favored politician, recover some of it from the public and write off the rest as a business loss. So what else is new?
To: ewing
Another unintended consequence brought to you by the enablers propping up the Grifters.
16 posted on
07/21/2003 9:55:45 AM PDT by
capydick
(TaxCuts are for TaxPayers)
To: ewing
This is great news... too bad they bury it and the major news doesn't pick it up.
17 posted on
07/21/2003 9:58:42 AM PDT by
bedolido
(Ann Coulter... A Conservative Male's Natural Viagra)
To: ewing
"My Publisher gave Hillary Clinton a $10 million contract and all I got was this lousy pink slip!"
To: ewing
Most of Her Heinous' books "sold" are still sitting in huge displays in the front of bookstores, unwanted. They'll all be in the $3 bin before long where they
still won't sell. Eventually, they'll be carted to the dump for a tax writeoff.
This was a scam and "legal" $8 million political payoff right from the beginning, just like Fort Worthless Jim Wright's pasted together screed which was bought by the tons with labor union dues.
The upcoming multi-million $ book by Bubba is more of the same scam.
28 posted on
07/21/2003 10:14:10 AM PDT by
Gritty
To: ewing
The only big publisher that does not have a conservative book-publishing imprint now. They got rid of the one they had (turned it ordinary). I have some excellent suggestions for people to lay off.
To: ewing
Was at the local Sam's Club yesterday. They had "Lying History" in a prominent rack (marked down), with about five other boods in similar displays next to it. The cases for the other books were half-emptied, people were buying them. The boxes for Hillary's fiction were full - I don't think a single book had been bought. It was a stark contrast!
And this only a month or two after the release of the "biggest selling book in history"! Where are the Simon & Schuster hypesters now, after all their brave statements in the first few days after the book's release?
To: Libertina
Here's the germ of an idea for the upcoming Seattle FReep!
The books they're buying have cost workers their jobs...
32 posted on
07/21/2003 10:22:13 AM PDT by
Eala
To: ewing
I'm hoping they go belly up and the editors have to move in with the low lifes that pilfered the White House.
36 posted on
07/21/2003 10:51:05 AM PDT by
sandydipper
(Never quit - never surrender!)
To: ewing
Can't wait for Phil Grahm to ask for a Senatorial Investigation into S&S, the Enron of publishing. Not only do they publish books, they cook them too!
Pray for GW and the Truth
37 posted on
07/21/2003 10:52:15 AM PDT by
bray
( Old Glory Stands for Freedom)
To: ewing
Doesn't x42i have a BIGGER advance from S&S ?...
When that comes out, there will be no workers left.
Looks like the Clintons bankrupt another company.
38 posted on
07/21/2003 11:05:16 AM PDT by
stylin19a
(is it vietnam yet ?)
To: StarFan; Dutchy; stanz; RaceBannon; Cacique; Clemenza; rmlew; NYC GOP Chick; hellinahandcart; ...
ping!
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40 posted on
07/21/2003 11:35:04 AM PDT by
nutmeg
To: ewing
Booking Layoffs [Simon and Schuster Canning Employees to Pay Hillary's Book Advance] ^
How rich is this- the little people, screwed again!
52 posted on
07/22/2003 7:13:03 AM PDT by
Helms
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