Sarah Palin book "Going Rogue" Mis-reported as "bestseller" by media?
SATIRE! THIS IS SATIRE! THIS IS NOT A REAL NEWS STORY: IT WAS NOT FACT CHECKED OR WRITTEN BY A REAL BLOGGER. IT IS ALL DONE IN FUN AND JEST. HAPPY THANKGIVING EVERYONE AND LET's PROGRESS THIS PALIN STORY. OKAY?
Sarah Palin book "Going Rogue" is being Mis-reported as a bestseller by the U.S. media they use pre-order NON-SALES in their story, which are not sales, just pre orders. most of the pre-orders will be returned unsold.
The American media is basically lying to the American public about Sarah Palin's book GOING ROGUE and its "faked" sales stats.
Here is the story. Read between the lines. SEE CAPS FOR ANNOTATED NOTES FROM BLOG:
Unknown source: Palin book pre-orders big in first week
NEW YORK — Sarah Palin appears well on her way to becoming an ALLEGED HYPED FAKE
million-selling author.
"Going Rogue" allegedly reportedly according to PR reps of Palin and publisher sold 17, 700,000 copies — a number that includes massive amounts of pre-orders —— AND PRE.ORDERS DOES NOT MEAN SALES OR BOOKS PAID FOR IT JUST MEANS BOOKS PRE,ORDERED ONLINE AND NOT PAID FOR YET IT IS A SCAM RUN BY AMAZON IN COLLUSION WITH BOOK PUBLISHERS TO DRUM UP PR FOR THEIR BOOKS AND THEREFORE INCREASE REAL BOOKS SALES IN REAL BOOKSTORES -- in its first week of release, according to a publishing official close HOW CLOSE? WHO WAS IT HER PR TEAM? to the former Alaska governor WHO QUIT THE GOVERNORSHIP LAST SUMMER. The UN-NAMED official was not authorized to release the sales figure OF COURSE NATURALLY SINCE THE SALES STATS ARE A FIB BASED ON PRE-ORDER NONSENSE FROM AMAZON's HYPE MACHINE AND USA MEDIA KNOW THIS FULLY and asked not to be identified. WE KNOW WHO SHE IS!
Palin's memoir came out Nov. 17 with aN ALLEGED first printing of REPORTEDLY 1.5 million copies. On Friday, publisher announced that the printing would be increased to allegedly 2.5 million. BUT HOW MANY COPES WILL BE RETURNED UNSOLD AND REMAINDERED, JUST LIKE THE NANCY REAGAN MEMOOR OF the 1990s? REMEMBER THAT ONE. MEDIA SAID SAME THING AT FIRST< LATER TOOK IT ALL BACK. stay tuned.
Few nonfiction books have debuted so well. BUT THOSE ARE NO SALES FIGURES FOR BOOKS SOLD, THOSE ARE JUST PRE-ORDERS BASED ON AMAZON PRE.ORDER BULLSHIT SALES HYPE STATS. In 2004, Bill Clinton's "My Life" sold more than 19,900,000 copies in its first week. BASED ALSO ON PRE.ORDERS AND HOW MANY OF THOSE 19,900,O0O WHERE RETURNED UNPAID FOR? AMERICAN MEDIA and nice JOURNOS, HAPPY THANKSGIVING AND GOD REST YE MERRY SOULS BUT SOME OF YOU ARE FIBBING HERE TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC. WHY? STRETCHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG THE TRUUUUUUUUUUUUUTH. why?
O, yes, this is America. land of the PR hype! go sarah go!
Sarah Palin book "Going Rogue" is being Mis-reported as a bestseller by the U.S. media they use pre-order NON-SALES in their story, which are not sales, just pre orders. most of the pre-orders will be returned unsold.
The American media is basically lying to the American public about Sarah Palin's book GOING ROGUE and its "faked" sales stats.
Here is the story. Read between the lines. SEE CAPS FOR ANNOTATED NOTES FROM BLOG:
Unknown source: Palin book pre-orders big in first week
NEW YORK — Sarah Palin appears well on her way to becoming an ALLEGED HYPED FAKE
million-selling author.
"Going Rogue" allegedly reportedly according to PR reps of Palin and publisher sold 17, 700,000 copies — a number that includes massive amounts of pre-orders —— AND PRE.ORDERS DOES NOT MEAN SALES OR BOOKS PAID FOR IT JUST MEANS BOOKS PRE,ORDERED ONLINE AND NOT PAID FOR YET IT IS A SCAM RUN BY AMAZON IN COLLUSION WITH BOOK PUBLISHERS TO DRUM UP PR FOR THEIR BOOKS AND THEREFORE INCREASE REAL BOOKS SALES IN REAL BOOKSTORES -- in its first week of release, according to a publishing official close HOW CLOSE? WHO WAS IT HER PR TEAM? to the former Alaska governor WHO QUIT THE GOVERNORSHIP LAST SUMMER. The UN-NAMED official was not authorized to release the sales figure OF COURSE NATURALLY SINCE THE SALES STATS ARE A FIB BASED ON PRE-ORDER NONSENSE FROM AMAZON's HYPE MACHINE AND USA MEDIA KNOW THIS FULLY and asked not to be identified. WE KNOW WHO SHE IS!
Palin's memoir came out Nov. 17 with aN ALLEGED first printing of REPORTEDLY 1.5 million copies. On Friday, publisher announced that the printing would be increased to allegedly 2.5 million. BUT HOW MANY COPES WILL BE RETURNED UNSOLD AND REMAINDERED, JUST LIKE THE NANCY REAGAN MEMOOR OF the 1990s? REMEMBER THAT ONE. MEDIA SAID SAME THING AT FIRST< LATER TOOK IT ALL BACK. stay tuned.
Few nonfiction books have debuted so well. BUT THOSE ARE NO SALES FIGURES FOR BOOKS SOLD, THOSE ARE JUST PRE-ORDERS BASED ON AMAZON PRE.ORDER BULLSHIT SALES HYPE STATS. In 2004, Bill Clinton's "My Life" sold more than 19,900,000 copies in its first week. BASED ALSO ON PRE.ORDERS AND HOW MANY OF THOSE 19,900,O0O WHERE RETURNED UNPAID FOR? AMERICAN MEDIA and nice JOURNOS, HAPPY THANKSGIVING AND GOD REST YE MERRY SOULS BUT SOME OF YOU ARE FIBBING HERE TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC. WHY? STRETCHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG THE TRUUUUUUUUUUUUUTH. why?
O, yes, this is America. land of the PR hype! go sarah go!
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Also in 1989 she published My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan, which gives an account of her life in the White House, speaking openly about her influence within the Reagan administration and discussing the myths and controversies that surrounded the couple. THIS BOOK WAS also said my mass media to be bestseller, with 400,000 units sold in first week, in fact, only 50,000 were purchased the rest were returned unpaid for. Just like Palin book. watch. History repeats itself, because nobody is paying attention to how the book business lies to the media to create hype and sales movement....
Sarah Palin's memoir: Why the math might not add up for HarperCollins
Sarah Weinman
Nov 10th 2009
Love her or hate her, Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate, is always a hot topic of conversation in the media. Her memoir, Going Rogue: An American Life, slated for release by News Corp.'s (NWS) HarperCollins next Tuesday, November 17, is no exception; it's been making news since the ink dried on the deal made last May.
Going Rogue was one of 10 books selected for massive discounting by Amazon (AMZN), Walmart (WMT), and Target (TGT) in their ongoing price war. Palin made headlines last month when she revealed that HarperCollins had paid her a $1.25 million "retainer" sometime between January 1 and July 26, the day she stepped down as Alaska governor. Oprah Winfrey has her booked on her show next Monday, which the author will follow with a bus tour to far-flung corners of the country (or as she famously called them during the 2008 campaign, "the real America"). No less than three books about Palin are slated for publication around the same time, including a parody called Going Rouge: An American Nightmare.
So all signs seem to point to a season-saving bestseller for HarperCollins and for the book business: Pre-orders are rumored to surpass 40,000 copies, with more added to the estimate each day. But look past the top ranking on Amazon and the reported first printing of 1.5 million copies -- and the math may not add up in Palin's favor.
The $7 Million Woman?
The conventional wisdom on Palin's payment for Going Rogue is that she received a $7 million advance from HarperCollins (which hasn't commented). But what did she really get?
Until recently, publishers have long split writers' advances, paying half upon signing a contract with the writer, and the other half upon a book's publication. But with the complicated financials of conglomerates in the equation, many publishers now pay out advances in quarters: upon signing, upon delivery and acceptance of the manuscript, upon hardcover publication, and finally a year later, upon publication of the paperback.
The only HarperCollins contract that's been made public -- the original deal for O.J. Simpson's If I Did It, originally slated for publication in 2006 by Judith Regan's imprint (before it was shut down) -- suggests that HC pays authors in quarterly installments. For Going Rogue, the $1.25 million paid to Palin seems to account for her signing and her delivery and acceptance. That would mean Palin's getting two more payouts, with her cut of the final advance, minus fees to her literary attorney, Robert Barnett, somewhere between $2.5 million and $5 million.
Breaking Even at 400,000 Copies
O.J. Simpson's contract also broke the advance further -- it accounted for fees paid to ghostwriter Pablo Fenjves. Lynn Vincent, a senior writer for Christian World, is widely reported to have done the gruntwork on Going Rogue -- proving so efficient that Palin's manuscript was delivered early and allowed HarperCollins to move the publication date from spring 2010.
Vincent is not getting a byline on Going Rogue, and she's not disclosing her fee. But Andrew Crofts, who literally wrote the book on ghostwriting, has some insight on her fee, based on his own experiences ghosting fiction and non-fiction in the U.K. "It's possible that she is on a
WIll HarperCollins Get Paid Back?
The late Sen. Edward Kennedy got a reported $8 million advance for his memoir True Compass, published by Hachette Book Group's Twelve Publishers in September. Twelve sold foreign rights to True Compass for three countries and has published a limited leather-bound edition for $1,000 a copy. That gives Twelve a better chance of earning back its advance than HarperCollins on Going Rogue, which won't have a similar limited edition and as of yet has not been signed for any editions outside the U.S. (although Barnett sold world rights to HarperCollins).
Within the industry, figures for both print runs and pre-orders are notoriously inaccurate. Publishers inflate print-run figures -- a good rule of thumb is that the actual print run is half of what's reported -- so the 1.5 million-copy press run of Going Rogue is likely closer to 750,000. The Amazon-Target-Walmart price war has made cheap copies plentiful, but their sites' "bestseller" rankings indicate high velocity, not necessarily high sales; if several hundred copies of Going Rogue were rapidly pre-ordered, the book would shoot up in the rankings.
For Going Rogue to go big, she must attract her contingent through bulk sales to the Christian right -- an audience long ignored by The New York Times Bestseller List, and by publishing in general, until Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins's Left Behind series about the Rapture proved too big a cash cow to ignore. But a year after her failed candidacy as Vice President, Palin is no longer the great hope of her party. Her image is tarnished by gossip media's fascination with her and her family -- especially Levi Johnston, the teenage father of her infant grandson, who has proved indiscreet with reporters eager for sordid details.
First Serial Rights
For Going Rogue, no publication has publicly stepped up to claim first serial rights -- running the juiciest excerpts before the book comes out, which either kindles or extinguishes public anticipation for it. Such an excerpt deal may have been struck for The Oprah Winfrey Show, which features Palin in an interview the day before the book's release; the public will find out on Monday.
Either way, it may not be in HarperCollins's interest to bank so much of its fall projections on Going Rogue. The publisher had a huge bust this year in Jonathan Littell's massively hyped thousand-page novel The Kindly Ones, for which it paid $1 million that it didn't come close to earning back. (Bookscan, which accounts for as much as 70 percent of all book sales, last summer reported a disappointing 17,000 copies sold.) And until recently, the company's 2009 earnings have been brutal, in line with sales of hardcover books, which have plunged 12.3% from last year, according to the Association of American Publishers.
Of course, the stars could still align in Palin's favor. She could produce the hit she and her publisher are looking for. But the math suggests that it may be the readers who go rogue on Palin -- and on HarperCollins's plans to right the wrongs of its dismal book sales.
Dear readers, this is off the record, not for public consumption, but Nielsen BookScan reports 470,001 copies of Palin's book "sold" through last Sunday. SOLD? Does that mean BOUGHT AND PAID FOR AND CANNOT BE RETURNED OR DOES THAT MEAN PRE-ORDERED AND PAID FOR ON CREDIT CARD AND CAN BE RETURNED AND NEVER READ AND NO MONEY EVER PAID? That's so-called "registered sales", not including price clubs, and LATER bulk sales to rightwing churches and Palin support groups. So the book might be on its way to 500,000 sales and 1 million "sales" soon. BUT...... please read between the lines and rememner this:
"....Danny, did you see Sarah Weinman's
DAILY BEAST story on Nov. 10 about
Palin's book numbers inflated and hyped by her publishers and how
Amazon stats can be GAMED just by
PRE ORDERING 200 copies as fake orders, just to jump the bestseller
gate? that's how they do it..... but 500,000 copies SOLD, cash in
hand, if true, and NOT RETURNED LATER, as happened with Nancy Reagan's
1989 MY TuRN book, let's see.
Palin is Popular enough to pull it off, I agree, and later BULK sales
to Christian churches will add up too. she will hit 1 million mark
sure, but how many books are actually PAID FOR AND READ.....let's
see...."
A little birdie in London, a very nice woman, tells me:
"I read Sarah Weiman's blog in the Daily Beast's piece (she's as smart as they come). yes, Danny, Some books indeed can be rigged, like Ron Paul's for instance. But Palin's has been No. 1 for so long on so many lists that it would take an effort far more vast and sustained than her supporters are capable of.
Consider, too, that 'Going Rogue' is not in the Book of the Month Club or Conservative Book Club, prime spots for bulk purchases.
I am sure there will be returns and some [under the table] distribution. But 450,000 registered sales in one week, all from mainstream sellers, is a very big number. SHe is on her way to the 500,000 mark and then the one million sales mark. maybe. let's see."
my response was:
"Ellen, I am slowly coming around to your POV, Ellen, thanks for educating me
on this....BUT IT IS interesting, no? Let's see if this is repeat of
1989 Nancy Reagan "bestseller" book MY TURN memories....it took a year
for that fact to surface, after returns came in, so we really won't know the
full PALIN story until 12 months from now.......meanwhile, the
"bestseller" hype gets her front page stories in newspapers
everywhere, USa and UK too...."
I predict of those 500,000 "sold" now, 300,000 will come back a year from now as RETURNED and REMAINDERED.....but by then, this will be OLD news and nobody will care. But we should care about the GAMING of the book sales system NOW, before the damage is done, as was done with the Ron Paul book and the Steven Wolfram science book a few years ago and the Nancy Reagan 1989 bomb that was hyped as a bestseller for its first three months. BESTSELLER just means bookstores ORDERED the book, and these ORDERES can be returned after customers don't buy it. Watch!
''Within the book industry, figures for both print runs and pre-orders are notoriously inaccurate. Publishers inflate print-run figures -- a good rule of thumb is that the actual print run is half of what's reported -- so the 1.5 million-copy press run of Going Rogue is likely closer to 750,000. The Amazon-Target-Walmart price war has made cheap copies plentiful, but their sites' "bestseller" rankings indicate high velocity, not necessarily high sales; if several hundred copies of Going Rogue were rapidly pre-ordered, the book would shoot up in the rankings.''
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