Gov. Scott Walker got rich advance for book, but poor sales (more then $340,000)

[Ellipsis]

BuzzFeed reported this past week that Walker was paid an advance exceeding $340,000 to write "Unintimidated: A Governor's Story and a Nation's Challenge," his account of the well-publicized fight over Act 10, which rolled back collective bargaining for most government workers. His advance could have been much higher.

The online report said Walker has sold 16,156 hardcover copies of the book since its release in November, according to BookScan. (5000 of those were bought by his own political action committee. HAH! )



When pressed, Walker — who is not a wealthy man — has refused to say how much he was paid upfront by Sentinel, an imprint of Penguin Random House, for the book. Last summer, the first-term Republican governor told No Quarter that he would provide that information on the state's "great ethics form" in 2014.



http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/noquarter/gov-scott-walker-got-rich-advance-for-book-but-poor-sales-b99231017z1-251709241.html

[mercuryblues]

1. writing a book

is a great way to buy off or bribe an official.

[Sunlei]

2. This book writing & buying, seems like a common fraud tactic these days. Some of them do the

scam with movies too. (remember palins crappy movie? ) It's a way to shuttle 'campaign funds' and bribes, into their pockets.

[CatholicEdHead]

4. Bulk sales are very common in the conservative echo chamber

Outlets like Newsmax will give them away "free" with a subscription.

So Walker only got 11,000 real sales on his book, the rest upcoming "free" sales in the next 2yrs will determine his place in line for 2016.

[dembotoz]

3. not only is he bad for business he is also bad for the book business

maybe if they gave a copy to each person bounced of badger care he could be on the best seller list

[charmay]

5. I guess nobody wants to read about how a Koch puppet "dropped a bomb"

on his constituents.