[Billthedrill]

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?

[ewing]

No one will remember anything in the liberal media except the fact that she sold out the first printing..

[marlon]

But wait a minute, didn't I read a few weeks back that Simon & Shuster claimed Hillary's book was in the black? It seems to me that right at the end of the first week after the release there were stories in all of the papers that S&S was gloating that the naysayers were wrong and that they had already recouped there money and were turning a profit. As a matter of fact they were rushing another 500,000 copies to print due to the overwhelming demand.

Was I dreaming or does anyone else remember this?

[Sunshine Sister]

You nailed it exactly. Thanks!

[Political Junkie Too]

It simply needed to be a better book, but you can't tell that at the time of writing an advance check.

They were dealing with the Clintons. They should have known better.

-PJ

[Pagey]

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

BUMP!