Thanks for that interesting inside info! As a follow-up, do you happen to know if a.) Hillary’s and Obama’s books had a lot of bulk sales, and, b.) did they make the NYT list? If the answer is ‘yes’ to both, then Cruz should definitely use this as an opportunity to trash then NYT for the leftist rag it is.
Sans-Culotte, I’m sure both Obama and Hillary’s books received bulk sales, especially the latter. I think Obama’s book legitimately sold as there was interest in him.
Hillary’s most recent book was a publishing disaster. It reached No. 1, mostly because the distribution was massive. Most of them were ultimately returned to the publisher and shredded in massive amounts. It sold 85,000 in the first week. By week 10 it was selling fewer than 10,000 copies. It had an initial print run of 1,000,000. To sell only 250,000 books on an initial print run of 1,000,000 probably should have gotten someone at S&S fired.