"TunaBote" wrote in news:rRGMc.5691$qT3.4833
@nwrddc03.gnilink.net:

The Dems are probably building walls with them....gotta use 'em up.


Let's see: Bill and Hillary and Gore write books
that sell over million copies in their first printing
and are still selling strong. Bush's book sold something
like 35,000 copies (bought mostly by conservative bookclubs
as freebie gifts) and can only be found only sale tables
now.





After selling about a million copies in the first week, sales have
dropped
by 95 percent, with the latest Nielsen BookScan numbers registering just
51,037 copies sold for the week of July 18.
The sales plunge comes despite huge discounts off the cover price by
major
retailers - and oodles of free media granted by fawning reporters who
continue to cover the ex-prez's every utterance along the book tour
trail.

One market where Clinton's publisher Knopf is hoping to see a sales
boost
is
Russia, where the presidential memior is set to debut in translated form
in
January.

"The first print-run of Clinton's 'Life' in Russia will be 15,000 copies
but
we hope to sell 20,000-30,000 copies," said Alexander Limansky,
spokesman
for the publsiher that acquired the rights to publish Clinton's tome in
Russia.

Because of the vagaries of the Russian language, the translated version
of
"My Life" will actually be 25 percent longer than its U.S. counterpart,
reports Pravda - and will include an interesting new detail not covered
in
the English version.

According to political scientist Vyacheslav Nikonov, president of the
Politika Foundation, the part of Clinton's book covering his 1970 trip
to
Moscow mentions "a good old man from the KGB who held salutary talks
with
the young American."

In the English version, Clinton acknowledges that he had meetings with a
Moscow man named Oleg Rakito. But the book identifies Rakito only as
someone
who "worked for the government."
--
CB
"He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon
will be, void of all regard for his country."
--Samuel Adams