Ann Coulter's book is #1 - I just saw this - breaking

[leftyladyfrommo]

That's pretty sad if its true. I can't believe anyone would waste their money on that trash.

[Beelzebud]

1. George Bush is our president. Nothing is shocking anymore.

Welcome to 1930's Germany.

[ThomCat]

2. Someone in my apartment building

got an ad in the mail and posted it by the mailboxes. Something from Newsmax about getting a copy of Anthrax's new book for only $4.99. They're basically giving them away. I'll bet Newsmax bought a few thousand copies and can't wait to unload them.

[leftyladyfrommo]

11. Drudge was offering them at 4.99, too.

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

13. Stacking the deck, that explains it. Sheesh.

The Dixie Chicks new CD was cut in price, but not to such an enormous extent!!!

I never believed in book burning, but well at $4.99 a shot, well...hmmm

[RebelOne]

17. $4.99 if you bought a subscription to a news magazine.

[RebelOne]

22. But you have to buy a subscription to get the book.

[gatorboy]

3. I'm not surprised.

Isn't it great that this "just ignoring her" sentiment around here is working so well?

[LostinVA]

6. It is working, consumers aren't buying many of her books

Bulk sales, pure and simple.

[gatorboy]

12. What's the proof that it's entirely bulk sales?

Where's the proof that no one is buying her book outside the usual suspects? I'm not trying to start a fight here but when you say ignoring her is working and her book stays at #1, I have to admit I'm not convinced.

[LostinVA]

18. There's a dagger next to the title of her book

It was on either the PW or the NYT list I saw yesterday. That's what that icon means: significant bulk sales.

[LA lady]

26. This isn't bulk sales.

Bulk purchases are not made from Amazon, this report is for their sales. The book is doing very well despite (or possibly due to) our disgust.

I am retired from the book industry.

[LostinVA]

47. It's not Amazon's #1 book

[LA lady]

51. ???

I didn't say it currently was?

I just said that bulk purchases are almost always made directly from the publisher, they aren't going to buy in the 1000's from a middleman. So the bulk sales will not be in NYT or Amazon or B&N lists.

The publisher will also later take bids on the "remainders" which is how bookstores get their Bargain Books.

[kiki]

52. Self-delete

[LostinVA]

4. There's a dagger next to the title

Bulk sales. Like what Scientology used to do, what was done to Savage's books, etc. This is not consumer driven, it is RE-think tank driven. This is a fake number 1.

[redqueen]

53. Bingo - bulk sales

Telling and encouraging that these clowns can't get their books to #1 without bulk sales.

[DainBramaged]

5. #1 where? Outhouse paper supply in Momtana?

[Virginia Dare]

7. Brilliant marketing scheme....

stir up fake controversy, get the 24 hour news cycle media buzzing about you, generate lots of free publicity, push name recognition up 1000%. Voila, #1 bestseller!

I believe it worked for Dan Brown as well.

[gatorboy]

29. I's gather that Dan Brown's success was word of mouth in the beginning.

I hardly heard a peep about The Da-Vinci code until the movie was announced and then it was 24/7.
A year ago I picked it up because I had to find out why this book was on the best seller's list for so long. But honestly, before the film came out, I hardly heard anything about it.

[Virginia Dare]

33. I think it was the fundies stirring up controversy that pushed

it to #1, pretty ironic, huh?

[gatorboy]

39. I think they helped the movie more than they did the book.

The book has been in the top 10 for three years now. And like I said before, I just went out and bought it on a whim just to see if it was really that good (It wasn' t :P).
But I honestly had never seen a rush of promotion for the book until the movie was being filmed. Then it was everywhere. Which only proves: The Right can't read. :P

[CGrantt57]

8. The Whore of Babble-on.

Jesus,what a sad, sick bitch.

:puke:

[Mr_Spock]

9. Hidden Coulter thread # 72

This one is promoting her book :(

[derby378]

10. At least the new Dixie Chicks album is still #1

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/charts/chart_display.jsp?g=Albums&f=The+Billboard+200

[Penndems]

14. No longer #1 on Amazon.com

It's been beaten back by, ironically enough, "Ultrametabolism : The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss".

Her tome's only been out a little over a week, and Amazon already has 55 "new and used" copies, LOL.

[leftyladyfrommo]

16. I saw that she had sold about 48,000 copies.

Course that is Drudge and the whole thing may be a big lie.

[johnnie]

15. Todays New York Times doesn't even mention it

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

Top 5 at a Glance
1. DISPATCHES FROM THE EDGE, by Anderson Cooper
2. MARLEY & ME, by John Grogan
3. WISDOM OF OUR FATHERS, by Tim Russert
4. THE WORLD IS FLAT, by Thomas L. Friedman
5. MAYFLOWER, by Nathaniel Philbrick


http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/bestseller/


:shrug:

[leftyladyfrommo]

20. That is probably the most accurate place to look.

[LostinVA]

21. btw... the number 5 on that list is very good n/t

[shain from kane]

25. Did you check HARDCOVER FICTION? n/t

[johnnie]

28. Yup

I even checked Children's books. Not there either.

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

30. Hate to say this, but that's based on a time before her idiocy came out

"...Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending June 3, at almost 4,000 bookstores plus wholesalers serving 60,000 other retailers, statistically weighted to represent all such outlets...."

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/18/books/bestseller/0618besthardnonfiction.html

[johnnie]

37. Ah, OK

My bad

[shain from kane]

40. No, your good. We get to shit on her again, when she finally shows up. n/t

[lpbk2713]

38. That's one more reason for the wingnuts to talk about the dayum librul NYT

For not telling the "Truth" (as they see it) about book sales.

They're trying to pull some "fuzzy math" with the bulk sales. And as usual they think no one will notice their shell game.

[wtmusic]

19. She doesn't deserve our attention nt

[leftyladyfrommo]

23. But she's so easy!

We need something to lighten the load of every day bad news that we have learned to put up with.

[wtmusic]

24. Why help her sell more books?

Even posting about her adds to the controversy. AFAIC she is nothing.

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

27. Just checked, #2 on Amazon, #8 on Barnes Noble. n/t

[LittleClarkie]

34. Were those advance copies I wonder or real copies

I suppose on Amazon it was real. But I could see inflating the numbers overall with advance copies. In a couple of months, it would be interesting to see what ends up on the discount rack.

As for her actually being number 1, it's hard to believe considering Fox News ratings are going down. If people are getting sick of them, surely they'd be getting sick of Ann.

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

36. Who knows, especially on Amazon? Maybe they've implemented a new

ranking system.

You standard operating procedure in the * admin. If you don't like the outcome of anything, like economic reports, what do they do?

They change the way that it is reported and ranked etc.

[UTUSN]

31. Why is it $6.95 at my grocery store? Marked down from $26 n/t

[shain from kane]

35. At your grocery store? next to the ipecac? n/t

[lpbk2713]

42. No toilet paper in stock?

:shrug:

[ChicagoRonin]

32. Do they actually read 'em

Given the disdain for brain-work that I've encountered first-hand among Republican supporters, does anyone think that these guys maybe don't actually read the books? Maybe they just buy them as a show of support. I mean, all Coulter ever does is reiterated what her fan base believes in anyway.

[NMDemDist2]

41. welcome to DU ChicagoRonin!

:hi:

nice post :evilgrin:

[zbdent]

48. No, they don't.

I got a hardcover, AUTOGRAPHED (not just "autograph stamped"; the ink bled through the page) copy of Rudy Giuliani's "Leadership" at a discount . . . 30 cents at a second-hand store.

The spine wasn't even crimped, cracked, or whatever the term is. Nobody bothered to read it. They just bought it so that it would look good on their shelf.

[cantstandbush]

43. It's only #1 on the Republican bulk buy list. Not to worry. nt

[zbdent]

49. I bet it's not even in the top ten of the republican

read list . . . too involved for those still trying to color within the lines . . .

[Ganja Ninja]

44. She's #1 for me to do #2 on.

[newspeak]

45. maybe, we should be asking

why MSM gives her carte blanche to push her book. She's given more access to MSM than any other author to push her sleezy ideas. So, it seems an agenda by MSM to get her hateful ideology out to the masses.

[Ganja Ninja]

46. You can ask but we already know the answer.

She gets on for the same reason Meet the Press has a ratio of Conservatives to Liberals of about 5 or more to 1. That's how the corporate masters want it. If Franken puts out a new book he might get on Letterman and the Daily Show but the Today Show, no way!

[KyuzoGator]

50. Yeah, and lots of neocon organizations are giving away copies for free.

Must be an extreme coincidence.