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William769

(55,144 posts)
Wed Jun 18, 2014, 09:19 PM Jun 2014

“HARD CHOICES” A SUCCESS

The reviews are in and the statistics are clear – Hillary Clinton’s memoir, “Hard Choices,” is a SUCCESS!

ATTACK: The right wing launched an attacked that Hillary Clinton’s memoir, “Hard Choices,” has not been successful so far.

FACTS:
s “Hard Choices” debuted on the New York Times’ Best Sellers list as the No. 1 “Nonfiction Print Hardcover,” No. 1 “Nonfiction E-Book,” and No. 1 “Nonfiction Combined Print & E-Book.”

s “Hard Choices” is among the year’s most popular nonfiction books, selling more than 100,000 copies so far, according to the Associated Press.

s In its first week, “Hard Choices” topped a number of best seller lists and was ranked:

http://correctrecord.org/hard-choices-a-success/

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“HARD CHOICES” A SUCCESS (Original Post) William769 Jun 2014 OP
K&R! hrmjustin Jun 2014 #1
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Bigredhunk

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Sat Jun 21, 2014, 05:16 AM
Jun 2014

IDK if it's impacted sales at all, but the loons have been very successful at bringing down the cumulative review on Amazon. It currently sits at 2 stars out of 795 reviews (211 five-star reviews, 509 one-star reviews, very few 2,3,4-star reviews in between). I remember seeing shrubs memoir being at 4-stars cumulatively the last time I checked.

Somewhere (one of their freak sites?) they organized and decided to trash her book. I doubt all 509 one-star reviews were just randomly written. It's too bad Amazon doesn't delete all reviews which reek of being bogus (short, hyperbolic, no detail given).

I'd love to buy the e-book, but I'm not a fan of the $14.99 price tag. I don't understand the greedy publishers asking for more than $9.99 for an e-book (unless it's massive or something). And $12.99 is bad enough (Senator Warren's book has been $12.99 since release). But $14.99?? I did buy Pinketty's to support it, but only b/c Amazon gave me a free $8 credit for a problem I had with an order.

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