Mary Cheney's book sells fewer than 6,000 copies since release

[yngliberal]

Mary Cheney's book sells fewer than 6,000 copies since release

The Advocate

Despite saturation media coverage when it was published a month ago, Mary Cheney's book Now It's My Turn has tanked at bookstores. Published by a conservative imprint of Simon & Schuster, the memoir has sold fewer than 6,000 copies to date, according to Nielsen Bookscan.

The book's sales have declined in each of the four weeks since its release, to only 574 copies sold for the week ending June 3. That's 77% fewer than its first-week sales of 2,445.

At this rate, it will be virtually impossible for Simon & Schuster to recoup the reported $1 million advance it paid Cheney for the book, which describes her life as the gay daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney.

http://www.advocate.com/news_detail.asp?id=32039

[xchrom]

1. you cannot believe how bitter i hope this pill gets to be for her.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. I can believe it. Hope the pubby asks Daddy to pay with his Halliburton $$

to recoup their losses. *g*

[xchrom]

9. pleez, pleez, pleez!

[Master Mahon]

3. hahahhaha

Giving it the 'bootster' to Simon & Schuster

[robbedvoter]

4. Bless the Advocate for this info - they hide their flops well usually

Looks like the all media blow out didn't help. So daddy rousted out 6000 serfs to buy it? Were they Halliburton employees? Will they use the opus as doorstop or mulch for the compost?

[MADem]

14. I Know Where The Caged Bird Poops, perhaps????

:rofl:

[Ilsa]

29. I watched on The NewsHour the other night where

mulched up stuff like this should be added to coal for binding with carbon atoms when it is burned to hopefully decreased greenhouse gas effect. Seems like the highest and best use. Or as a door prop.

[smoogatz]

5. Wow. 6,000 copies sold after a $1 million advance?

How utterly pathetic. That's the end of her "literary" career.

[yngliberal]

I agree...

There are many first time authors who do so much better in terms of sales and they only get a $100,000.00 advance.

[smoogatz]

20. The average advance for a first-time author in lit/fic is much less

than $100k; more like $15-$50k. Memoir is still considered a "hot" genre, so they tend to go for a bit more, assuming they're "sexy" enough. I guess Mary Cheney had some celebrity appeal, though she's always come across as brittle and unhappy IMO. Selling a memoir to the public is all about selling the author--and Mary Cheney isn't a particularly compelling figure, I don't think. This deal will also damage or sink her editor's career--eds totally put their credibility on the line when they pitch a book like this to the folks upstairs.

[Bucky]

11. The $1m wasn't an investment in her sales. It was bribe to her dad.

I think they'll still get their million dollars' worth. What they bought was Dick Cheney's gratitude. Gee, I hope no one thinks I'm implying it was a bribe.

[Bucky]

6. Where are the gay-friendly pro-Cheney literate warhawks when you need 'em?

You'd think there'd be at least more than 6000. It's a big country, you know.

[xchrom]

12. i have to laugh as i say this --

you'd think the freepers would have all run out and bought one.

[Bucky]

19. I said "gay-friendly proCheney LITERATE warhawks". Perhaps I should add...

Those who make enough money to buy hard cover books. It's hard to buy hardcover when you can't even afford to move out of mom's basement.

[acmejack]

32. Did Mary use a lot of polysyllabic words?

They hate that...

[robbedvoter]

16. All the marketing research for the 1 mil advance for this proven author

Oh, wait! This was done by the same people who gave us "Iraqis will welcome us with flowers and candy"

[Minnesota_Lib]

7. Maybe she'll take the hint that her "kind" is not wanted in the big tent .

[Bucky]

23. What hint? She got a million bucks! Dad's happy. She's set. What downside?

It's a legalized 'thank you' to her dad. I really don't think anyone saw actual sales of her book as anything but possible icing on a very very rich cake.

[EST]

8. Wow! "Seminal missive" status in only four weeks.

[The Deacon]

10. So is Simon & Shyster going to ask for the advance back?

Cheney: "Sure, guys, come out to the quail hunt & I'll write you a check."

[MADem]

13. Enter Richard Mellon Scaife, stage right!!!

Free gift if you attend this GOP fundraiser!!! Buy a subscription to ReichWing Magazine, and get a free book!!! Make a donation to the Greedy Old Pigs, and get a free book!!!

Who the hell is BUYING the dreadful thing at all?? I guess the sales figures are the world's way of telling Dear Mary that Now It's HER Turn...to shut up!

You've got to wonder what IDIOTS made that deal to begin with--the woman is a well-known sellout, and she is JUST NOT THAT INTERESTING, except as a figure who inspires a bit of disgust.

[ThoughtCriminal]

15. Recouping the loss

"At this rate, it will be virtually impossible for Simon & Schuster to recoup the reported $1 million advance it paid Cheney for the book,"

There are payoffs that have nothing to do with revenue.

[thereismore]

17. Only 6,000? Imagine how many bookstores there are in the

nation, and every one has them in stock. What a bomb. Schadenfreude galore.

[lies and propaganda]

18. they cant all be Man Coulter....

hahahahahahah

[NNN0LHI]

21. I seen a big stack of them at Family Dollar Store the other day n/t

[gratuitous]

22. Tee hee, giggle giggle, guffaw GUFFAW

Did you enjoy your turn, Mary? Not a very long one.

[AndyA]

24. Holy flop, Batman! That's gotta be one of the biggest losers in literary

history!! I'll bet How to Lick Stamps by Jess Laffin sold more copies! :rofl:

[salinen]

25. Mary is a success!

Now she's qualified to be an anchorperson on FAUX.

[Dervill Crow]

26. Ha - it's already available used on Amazon and half.com

if anyone actually wants to read it.

[gatorboy]

27. Well, what did she expect?

The left knows what a complete shill she is and the right...Well, quite frankly, they think you're a leper, Mary. Regardless of who you're daddy is.

I guess she learned a nice lesson in "compassionate conservatism"...

[mbee]

28. Saw Karen Hughes book in the Family

Dollar Store!

[Ilsa]

30. Me too. It's in all the Dollar General and Family Dollar stores right

next to the large print Word Search puzzles. Right where it belongs.

[Crunchy Frog]

31. No great surprise.

The sort of people who would normally be in the market for that type of book are the same sort who hate gays and would never want to read a book by one.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

33. Good point.. kind of a tough demographic to swing, "gay haters who want to

read a book written by a gay"

[mnhtnbb]

34. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!

[Patsy Stone]

35. There aren't more than 6000

self-hating Republican homphobic lesbians in this country? I'd have thought you couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting one... :shrug:

[applegrove]

36. Wow? I wonder who she thought would be buying it? She's hated

by Liberals cause she is related to a bunch of assholes (because of what her family does). She is not human to Repukes because of who she is inside.