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Publishing Source: Hillary Book a 'Bomb'
Weekly Standard ^

Posted on 06/16/2014 6:54:44 PM PDT by bryan999

In an email this evening, a veteran publishing source calls the latest Hillary Clinton book, Hard Choices, a memoir of her State Department years, a "bomb." The source is referring to the early but underwhelming sales figures.

"Between us, they are nervous at S&S [Simon & Schuster]," says the source, who gave permission for his email to be published. "Sales were well below expectations and the media was a disaster."

According to this source, a Simon & Schuster insider, "They sold 60,000 hard covers first week and 24,000 ebooks." The publishing house was "hoping and praying for 150,000 print first week."

(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...


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To: SeaHawkFan

Considering the Foreign Policy disaster on display people might want a copy for the laughs.....


61 posted on 06/16/2014 8:07:53 PM PDT by Kozak ("It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal" Henry Kissinger)
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To: JPG

heh, heh, heh


62 posted on 06/16/2014 8:10:41 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: JPG

You really want to hear something funny, listen to exerpts from the audio book. Read by Shillery herself it’s as if she’s reading them for the first time and has the most monotone robotic delivery, as if Siri was reading them....


63 posted on 06/16/2014 8:10:46 PM PDT by Kozak ("It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal" Henry Kissinger)
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To: SampleMan

And libraries will be forced to buy more than 1 copy.


64 posted on 06/16/2014 8:11:48 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: elcid1970

No hit on the author but it’s in my bathroom reading stack

el Does it come on a roll?


65 posted on 06/16/2014 8:12:49 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( On to impeachment and removal (IRS, Taliban, Fast and furious, VA, Benghazi)!!!)
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To: Kozak
--You really want to hear something funny, listen to exerpts from the audio book.

No thanks. I have a strong stomach, but not that strong!

66 posted on 06/16/2014 8:17:33 PM PDT by JPG (Yes We Can morphs into Make It Hurt.)
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To: Kozak

She’s a shoe-in for an Emmy for her reading of a book that just allows her to refuse to answer questions in the campaign. “It’s in the book.”


67 posted on 06/16/2014 8:19:35 PM PDT by ntnychik
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To: bryan999

I guess you couldn’t carry it on to a plane.


68 posted on 06/16/2014 8:22:25 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch (http://thegatwickview.tumblr.com/ http://thepurginglutheran.tumblr.com/)
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To: bryan999

Was just at a Barnes & noble a few hours ago in Paramus NJ, and the book is displayed prominently just inside the front door, all copies bearing the 30% off sticker.Yes, the media done for the book was bad, aided tremendously by Hillary’s petulant, defensive, touchiness with the interviewers I saw.


69 posted on 06/16/2014 8:35:59 PM PDT by supremedoctrine
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Thanks! I’ll look for it.


70 posted on 06/16/2014 8:38:04 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx)
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To: bryan999
Look for a sale that goes something like this...

Hardcopy of Hard Choices $3.99

Signed hardcopy of Hard Choices $1.99

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71 posted on 06/16/2014 8:43:49 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: bryan999

The publisher will really get hosed on this.


72 posted on 06/16/2014 8:46:23 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Do The Math)
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To: JPG

At over 1000 pages, making a prisoner listen to it would be a violation of the Geneva Convention on Torture, or the Constitutions Cruel and Unusual Punishment clause....


73 posted on 06/16/2014 8:48:13 PM PDT by Kozak ("It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal" Henry Kissinger)
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To: Kozak
...listen to exerpts from the audio book.

Sounds like good material for sound-bite campaign commercials...

...for REPUBLICANS!

.

74 posted on 06/16/2014 8:49:55 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: elcid1970

Ted Olson’s wife died in the plane from Newark that hit the second tower i believe.


75 posted on 06/16/2014 8:52:05 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2 (civil law: commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong Blackstone Commentaries I p44)
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To: Mike Darancette
The publisher will really get hosed on this.

This was a campaign contribution. They are expecting some favor in return for their generous advance contribution to her election campaign.

Nobody will read this book. I doubt if her editor got through it.

76 posted on 06/16/2014 8:52:43 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
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To: kvanbrunt2

corrected the washington plane that hit the pentagon.


77 posted on 06/16/2014 8:53:53 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2 (civil law: commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong Blackstone Commentaries I p44)
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To: JPG
Now over 400, 1 star Amazon reviews. Has any other high-profile book ever been so trashed by the public?

640 Reviews- 5 star: (177) 4 star: (17) 3 star: (18) 2 star: (24) 1 star: (404)

78 posted on 06/16/2014 8:56:16 PM PDT by JPG (Yes We Can morphs into Make It Hurt.)
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To: bryan999

Hillary book a bomb? I thought only terrorist Barry used book bombs?


79 posted on 06/16/2014 8:58:26 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: kvanbrunt2
Ted Olson’s wife died in the plane from Newark that hit the second tower i believe.

Barbara Olson was a passenger on AA 77 from Dulles to LAX, which crashed into the Pentagon.

80 posted on 06/16/2014 8:58:58 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: Ignorance on parade.)
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