Irony So Dense You Can Use Chopsticks

[asroc]

Five authors have sued the parent company of Regnery Publishing, a Washington imprint of conservative books, charging that the company deprives its writers of royalties by selling their books at a steep discount to book clubs and other organizations owned by the same parent company.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/07/books/07cons.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Don't you guys realize that these practices are WHY conservative books even crack the bestseller list at all? They unload them at a massive discount to book clubs started by jerks like AEI, the Heritage Foundation or Regnery themselves, who buy them in bulk, at a discount, to drive up the percieved sales. Sorry guys, Ann Coulter doesn't actually sell a fraction of what you think. Her books collect dust on a palette in some K street warehouse.

Here's a tip: when reading the NYT nonfiction bestseller list, a dagger (†) by the book indicates that bookstores report receiving bulk orders. Bulk orders are in the hundreds, and intended to fake demand for the book.

Now compare, say, an Al Franken book to an Ann Coulter book. Which one depends on bulk orders, and which one was sold to actual individuals?

[LadyMod at scam.com]

Here's a tip: when reading the NYT nonfiction bestseller list, a dagger (†) by the book indicates that bookstores report receiving bulk orders. Bulk orders are in the hundreds, and intended to fake demand for the book.

Now compare, say, an Al Franken book to an Ann Coulter book. Which one depends on bulk orders, and which one was sold to actual individuals?

No (+) here but check it out.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/books/bestseller/1111besthardnonfiction.html

Annie is #9 on the list and Steve Colbert is #1. Which I was able to read before it was officially out and it's funny. LOL. Ann's book has only been out one week longer than Steve's. :D


This Week ............................... LastWeek..........Weeks On List

1 I AM AMERICA (AND SO CAN YOU!),....1......................3
by Stephen Colbert, Richard Dahm,
Paul Dinello and Allison Silverman.
(Grand Central, $26.99.) The wit and
wisdom of the mock pundit of Comedy
Central’s “Colbert Report.”

9 IF DEMOCRATS HAD ANY BRAINS, ........6 ..................4
THEY’D BE REPUBLICANS, by Ann Coulter.
(Crown Forum, $24.95.) A collection of
the columnist’s provocative quotations

[asroc]

Ann Coulter was basically kicked out of Regnery and is now relegated to the ghetto that is Crown Forum books, that's why her sales are down. They can't afford to do the mass bulk scam for more than maybe the first week, unlike Regnery.

[LadyMod at scam.com]

Ann Coulter was basically kicked out of Regnery and is now relegated to the ghetto that is Crown Forum books, that's why her sales are down. They can't afford to do the mass bulk scam for more than maybe the first week, unlike Regnery.


LOL, maybe I will send a thank you note to Regnery.


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