"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

Mitchell Holman wrote:

"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.



Bush's book was entirely ghost-written. I doubt he spent an hour with
the ghost who wrote it. Bush doesn't read well, and he can't write, either.



--
A vote for Nader is a vote for Bush;
A vote for Bush is a vote for Apocalypse.

Speaking of Bill...he's supposed to be in the province this summer for a
yearly conference organized by former premier of a sister Maritime province.
Meetings take place at Fox Harbour resort owned by former 'donught king of
Canada' ...Ron Joyce, who with the late hockey player, started Tim Horton's

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
...
Mitchell Holman wrote:

"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.



Bush's book was entirely ghost-written. I doubt he spent an hour with
the ghost who wrote it. Bush doesn't read well, and he can't write,
either.



--
A vote for Nader is a vote for Bush;
A vote for Bush is a vote for Apocalypse.

CB wrote:

Friday, July 23, 2004 10:09 a.m. EDT
Bubba's Book Sales Stalled

Poor CB. You're such a tool. The first run has sold *out*. Of course
sales would fall off! DUH.

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/N...562619,00.html

New York - Bill Clinton's My Life needed just one month to sell out its
initial printing of 1.5 million, publisher Alfred A. Knopf announced on
Friday. The audio version has already sold 150 000 copies, far more than
most books in that format.


After setting sales records in the initial weeks after its June 22 release,
demand for Bill Clinton's memoir "My Life" has cooled considerably.

In fact, the plummeting numbers may set records for the fastest sales
drop-off in publishing history, reports the New York Post.

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

*ploink*

--
-Netsock

"It's just about going fast...that's all..."
http://home.insight.rr.com/cgreen/
"CB" wrote in message
...
Friday, July 23, 2004 10:09 a.m. EDT
Bubba's Book Sales Stalled

After setting sales records in the initial weeks after its June 22
release,
demand for Bill Clinton's memoir "My Life" has cooled considerably.

In fact, the plummeting numbers may set records for the fastest sales
drop-off in publishing history, reports the New York Post.

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

*ploink*

--
-Netsock

"It's just about going fast...that's all..."
http://home.insight.rr.com/cgreen/
"CB" wrote in message
...

"vast left wing stupidity" wrote in message
...


CB wrote:

Friday, July 23, 2004 10:09 a.m. EDT
Bubba's Book Sales Stalled

After setting sales records in the initial weeks after its June 22
release,
demand for Bill Clinton's memoir "My Life" has cooled considerably.

In fact, the plummeting numbers may set records for the fastest sales
drop-off in publishing history, reports the New York Post.

CB, Can we add this to his legacy?????

Yes we have.



--
"We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."
Senator Hillary Clinton 2004, Karl Marx Manifesto of the Communist Party
1848

*ploink*

--
-Netsock

"It's just about going fast...that's all..."
http://home.insight.rr.com/cgreen/
"CB" wrote in message
...
Friday, July 23, 2004 10:09 a.m. EDT
Bubba's Book Sales Stalled

After setting sales records in the initial weeks after its June 22
release,
demand for Bill Clinton's memoir "My Life" has cooled considerably.

In fact, the plummeting numbers may set records for the fastest sales
drop-off in publishing history, reports the New York Post.

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