Posted on 06/18/2014 2:55:00 PM PDT by jimbo123
Hard Choices sells 85,721 hard copies, according to Nielsen figures.
Hillary Clinton’s new memoir was the second-most purchased hardcover book in its first week, according to Nielsen Bookscan data that records physical book sales at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Wal-Mart, and other retailers.
The BookScan figures, released Wednesday to publishers and obtained by BuzzFeed, account for sales during the week ending on Sunday, June 15 — a period covering the first six days Clinton’s book, Hard Choices, was available for purchase. They reflect strong but not spectacular sales for a book that has dominated the political conversation.
The Bookscan service tracks approximately 85% of retail sales for physical books at the biggest booksellers, but does not account for e-books, made for tablets like Kindle. In addition to tracking Amazon and Barnes & Noble sales, BookScan tracks hundreds of independent bookstores and big-box retailers like Costco.
The figures show Clinton sold 85,721 hardcover copies in its first week.
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To be honest, 82,000 for a non-fiction book is a huge week. Not for Hillary’s book because of the huge advance but there hasn’t been a non-fiction book this year that has sold 82,000 copies in a week. It’s not uncommon for a book that sells 20-30,000 copies in a week to be No. 1 on the non-fiction list.
It is a debacle because of the $14,000,000 advance. It will never be recouped and that is equal to the entire profit that Simon and Schuster made in 1st quarter. This debacle wipes out 25% of their annual earnings.
Ben Carson’s sold 33,000 his first week and that was No. 1 as well. Robin Robert’s book was No. 1 on the list in early May and only sold 17,000. Dave Ramsey’s sold 75,000 the week that his book was No. 1. There have been several weeks this year when the No. 1 selling non-fiction hardcover sold fewer than 15,000 copies. Robert Gates sold 80,000 his first week.
This debacle with a $14 million advance will wipe out 25% of S&S earning for this year. Lots of layoffs on the way for S&S employees starting in July.
I agree. I was just remarking about how few books are selling these days.
Rush Revere: #1 on Nielsen BookScan
Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims is numero uno in adult, children, hardcover, paperback, fiction, nonfiction, 158,005 copies sold.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2013/11/06/rush_revere_1_on_nielsen_bookscan
I'd cash it right away, boys. Just sayin'...
That's a laugh. My "political conversation" is much more concerned with a government that tries more each day to take my rights, my money, my freedom, and my guns. I give not a crap about Hillary, a statist elite crone who would be glad to do all four every day, and twice on Saturday.
Does her advance include the costs of actually printing, paying editors, promotion, travel, design, shipping, storage, etc., etc., etc.?? Or is the $14M exclusively to her, personally? Whatever .... a $14M advance is obscene.
Wonder where they are getting their numbers to use for copies sold and if they are calling those shipped to book sellers are being sold. If the ones they have for sale don’t sell, will the bookstores be expected to pay for them?
Maybe they are playing the funny numbers game that DC plays every Thursday with the unemployment rate.
And the publisher printed a million of them. Heh. Serves them right for laundering 14-million dollars to her.
Nope. That is on Simon & Schuster. If Barnes & Noble is selling it for $21, S&S is making less than that. After the expenses you listed, let’s say they make $14 per book (which is probably too high a number). That means the advance they paid Hillary is the profit on one million copies. THEN Simon & Schuster begins to earn a profit. Did they really think she would sell millions of books? She may be a witch, but she’s no Harry Potter.
They needed to sell 1.6 million copies of her book just to break even on the advance. That doesn’t include any of the other costs including printing, salaries of the soon-to-be-laid-off S&S employees, etc.
S&S is getting more like $9/book.
Her book was originally titled "To Serve Man."
“Another sad thing about this: the 2nd most popular book in America only sold 82,000 copies, i.e. people don’t read much anymore.”
We read books all the time. We just do it on e-readers.
I’m sort of hoping that one of my co-workers will leave a copy by the crapper. To read, dang it, to read.
A “Bomb”?
Hey, Bomb’s actually work. Which is more than we can say for this piece of lie stick.
Waaaaaaay back I worked for a magazine/publishing entity and was told by the publisher that a national “best seller” sold 500K books. That was in the 70s, pre-internet, pre-Kindle, etc. So maybe S&S was just hoping for an inside track, a post-WH Hillary book? A Bill book? Or a discreet political contribution? Who knows?
Apparently “Hard Choices” was the title of a porno film.
Other appropriate titles.
Bill Clinton: “Hard On”
Hillary: “Hard Up”
Hillary: “What Difference Does It Make?”
Hillary: “Benghazi Journal”
Hillary: “How I Worked with the Communist Party to Defend Black Panther Torturers and Murderers, Got Fired as Unethical by the Watergate Committee, Tried to Get a Communist Friend Hired as Secy of Education, Screwed Up the Original “Heathcare” Issue, and Don’t Think that the 4 Graves of American Murdered in Benghazi are Anything Else than Bumps in the Road” to the Presidency”
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