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Clinton book publisher shipped 1 million copies, but only 160,000 copies sold

Hillary Clinton addresses Planned Parenthood
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From the leftist Huffington Post.

Excerpt:

If books can make presidencies — and Barack Obama proved they can– then hold the talk about the inevitability of Hillary Clinton.

The Huffington Post has learned that new survey figures show sales of her foreign policy memoir, Hard Choices, are falling fast.

According to authoritative numbers from Bookscan, which monitors sales at 80 percent of bookstores nationwide, retail sales of Hard Choices plummeted another 50 percent in the third week — down to 26,190 from 48,200 the week before and 85,900 the first week of publication.

Books whose sales drop off by half in successive weeks generally don’t become blockbusters, which could be a problem — a big one — for Clinton’s publisher, Simon & Schuster.

S&S reportedly shipped 1 million copies of the book to stores and is said to have paid Clinton an advance approaching $14 million. At the current rate, it would take many months to sell the million copies — an unlikely prospect according to industry sources.

“It looks like they are going to be pulping a lot of paper,” said a top industry source, who declined to be quoted by name because of the sensitivity of the matter in the industry. A Simon & Schuster spokesman declined immediate comment.

Total sales are only 160,000, according to the leftist Washington Post.

I think this probably has to do with her much publicized comments about being “poor”, despite having millions of dollars. The flagging book sales is good news for us who want Hillary to be the nominee for the Democrats in 2016.