Sarah Palin's "memoir" -- why the math does not add up for HarperCollins the publisher
Here's why: according to Sarah Weinman's post on Daily Beast: CAPS INDICATE THIS BLOGGER'S NOTES:
''Within the CORRUPT book industry, figures for both print runs and pre-orders are notoriously inaccurate, AND THIS INCLUDES FAKED STATS AND FIGURES FOR SARAH PALIN'S BOOK FROM VERY SAVVY PUBLISHER HARPERCOLLINS. Publishers OFTEN inflate print-run figures IN ORDER TO IMPRESS REPORTERS AND GET FRONT PAGE COVERAGE FOR AN ALLEGED BESTSELLER WHICH IS IN FACT NOT A BESTSELLER, SEE NANCY REAGAN's 1989 MEMOIR THAT WAS REPORTED TO BE A BESTSELLER WITH 400,000 BOOKS SOLD BUT A YEAR LATER IT WAS REPORTED ON PUBLISHERS LUNCH THAT IN FACT MOST OF THE BOOKS HAD BEEN RETURNED BY BOOKSTORES AS UNSOLD AND REMAINDERED, LET THIS BE A LESSON HERE -- a good rule of thumb is that the actual print run is half of what's reported -- so the ALLEGED 1.5 million-copy press run of ''Going Rogue'' is likely closer to 750,000 AND MORE LIKE 300,00. The Amazon-Target-Walmart price war has made cheap copies plentiful, but their sites' FAKED AND HYPED "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.''
THAT LAST SENTENCE SAYS IT ALL. THIS IS HOW PUBLISHERS and THEIR PR MAVENS GAME THE SYSTEM AND GAME THE MEDIA, AND NOBODY EVERY KNOWS. THEY DID IT WITH THE RON PAUL BOOK, THE STEVEN WOLFRAM SCIENCE BOOK, THE NANCY REAGAN 1989 BOOK and NOW THEY ARE DOING WITH SARAH PALIN's ghostwritten "memoir". FAKERY ABOUNDS. READ BETWEEN THE LINES, EVERYONE, read between the lines.
A YEAR FROM NOW, WE WILL KNOW THE TRUTH, PALIN'S BOOK BOMBED, BUt a year from now, it will not be news and nobody will care. the time to care is NOW!
AS IF
HAPPY THANKSGIVING, EVERYONE!
''Within the CORRUPT book industry, figures for both print runs and pre-orders are notoriously inaccurate, AND THIS INCLUDES FAKED STATS AND FIGURES FOR SARAH PALIN'S BOOK FROM VERY SAVVY PUBLISHER HARPERCOLLINS. Publishers OFTEN inflate print-run figures IN ORDER TO IMPRESS REPORTERS AND GET FRONT PAGE COVERAGE FOR AN ALLEGED BESTSELLER WHICH IS IN FACT NOT A BESTSELLER, SEE NANCY REAGAN's 1989 MEMOIR THAT WAS REPORTED TO BE A BESTSELLER WITH 400,000 BOOKS SOLD BUT A YEAR LATER IT WAS REPORTED ON PUBLISHERS LUNCH THAT IN FACT MOST OF THE BOOKS HAD BEEN RETURNED BY BOOKSTORES AS UNSOLD AND REMAINDERED, LET THIS BE A LESSON HERE -- a good rule of thumb is that the actual print run is half of what's reported -- so the ALLEGED 1.5 million-copy press run of ''Going Rogue'' is likely closer to 750,000 AND MORE LIKE 300,00. The Amazon-Target-Walmart price war has made cheap copies plentiful, but their sites' FAKED AND HYPED "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.''
THAT LAST SENTENCE SAYS IT ALL. THIS IS HOW PUBLISHERS and THEIR PR MAVENS GAME THE SYSTEM AND GAME THE MEDIA, AND NOBODY EVERY KNOWS. THEY DID IT WITH THE RON PAUL BOOK, THE STEVEN WOLFRAM SCIENCE BOOK, THE NANCY REAGAN 1989 BOOK and NOW THEY ARE DOING WITH SARAH PALIN's ghostwritten "memoir". FAKERY ABOUNDS. READ BETWEEN THE LINES, EVERYONE, read between the lines.
A YEAR FROM NOW, WE WILL KNOW THE TRUTH, PALIN'S BOOK BOMBED, BUt a year from now, it will not be news and nobody will care. the time to care is NOW!
AS IF
HAPPY THANKSGIVING, EVERYONE!
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