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To: Elle Bee
Isn't she also on the board of Knopf, that is supposedly publishing the Clinton memoirs?
11 posted on 12/10/2001 3:25:59 AM PST by Judith Anne
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To: Judith Anne
Yes, that's why some here will not buy Knopf books.

If the Republicans and Bush administration won't deal firmly with this bully, they will not only lose credibility but they will always have trouble with these types. Once you start waffling it will only encourage bullies.

13 posted on 12/10/2001 3:33:55 AM PST by Dante3
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To: Judith Anne; Dante3
Victoria Wilson who refuses to step down (with Berry's help) is a VP or some such at Knopf

and that is ample reason to boycott their books

Does Knopf publish any Klintoon books?

were they the one's who gave the Hilldabeast that advance? ...... or to Bubber? perhaps someone should look at just what Vicky has pushed at Knopf

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16 posted on 12/10/2001 3:43:02 AM PST by Elle Bee
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To: Judith Anne; Dante3
Victoria Wilson who refuses to step down (with Berry's help) is a VP or some such at Knopf, isn't she?

Does Knopf publish any Klintoon books?

were they the one's who gave the Evita that advance? ...... or to Bubber? perhaps someone should look at just what Vicky has pushed at Knopf

John Fund / WSJ. in April...

"Bill Clinton has landed an advance of close to $12 million for world-wide rights to his presidential memoirs, a record for a nonfiction book. Publisher Alfred A. Knopf claims it will make money on the deal, but that ignores a long history of money-losing books by political figures. Roger Straus, president of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, says the enormous size of the advance is "particularly strange" because there wasn't an auction among competing publishers. He doesn't "see how it's possible for it to make money."

The publishing landscape is littered with books by political figures that failed to make back their advance. Exceptions are the memoirs of Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf and those of Jimmy Carter, who received an advance of less than $1 million.

"Publishing books by famous politicians is an ego trip for publishers," Mr. Straus says. "They get publicity and prestige, and they can carry any huge advance as an asset on their balance sheets until the book is released. There are few headlines reporting massive returns of unsold books."

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35 posted on 12/10/2001 4:49:38 AM PST by Elle Bee
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