On Oct 24, 6:05 am, Peter Franks <n... at (no spam) none.com> wrote:





Cliff wrote:
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2009/10/23/sarah-pal....

  LOL
  And it's not even published yet !!!

It is due to a price war between Wal-Mart and Amazon, NOT because of
lack of interest.  From your OWN referenced article:

"But there may be more to the story: over the past week or so, Amazon
has been  steadily dropping the price of Palin’s book to compete with
other retailers, including Wal-Mart, which offered it for presale at $10."

"With just under a month to go before it’s released to the masses, Sarah
Palin’s upcoming autobiography, Going Rogue, has already been near the
top of Amazon’s bestseller list for weeks."

Sorry, my friend, you've been taken, hook, line, and sinker by the
Newsweek propaganda machine.

It's how retail works.  If a retailer pays $1,000,000. for his
merchandise when he makes $1,000,000 in sales; all the rest is
profit.  He can sell it at whatever price he wants.- Hide quoted text -

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"Selling Palin."

I take it back. It means you're an idiot.

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NO ONE IS WHINING, SHIT4BRAINS! WE ARE DISCUSSING SOMETHING. YOU, BEING A
SOCIAL MISFIT AND A PATHOLOGICAL FUCK, ARE UNABLE TO DISCUSS ANY GODDAM THING.
IF IT'S NOT ABOUT YOU OR A CHANCE TO SHOW EVERYONE HOW FUCKING SMART (YOU
THINK) YOU ARE, YOU AREN'T INTERESTED!

Those higher-prices sales don't happen if the
publisher dramatically cuts the cost to the resellers BEFORE
release--which is what we are seeing now.

No. The retailers are selling the book below their cost to drive
traffic to their site, either bricks & mortar or web. The same thing
is happening with the latest Steven King book, which is guaranteed to
sell. It's a loss leader for the retailers; the publisher has nothing
to do with it.

The big retailers like WalMart are trying to skim off the traffic
normally going to other sites for about the top 10 selling books.
Palin's book will fall into that category. WalMart and Amazon are
engaging in an old-fashioned price war.

On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:46:17 -0800 (PST), Ernst Blofeld

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No. The retailers are selling the book below their cost to drive
traffic to their site, either bricks & mortar or web

And faux, Moonie times, WorldNut daily, American
speckledtater, and dozens of other rightwing places
order it by the truckload and give it away to
mushbrains.

On Nov 2, 2:33 pm, Jim Alder <jimal... at (no spam) ssnet.com> wrote:

    If they're selling below cost with free shipping, why don't other
booksellers buy from them, then sell them at full price after the release?


It's big news in the publishing world.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704322004574477050954174722.ht
ml

---
Book publishers are worried they and retail chains could be caught in
the cross fire as Amazon.com Inc. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. ratchet up
their price war over online book sales.

...
The veteran publisher said when major retailers are allowed to sell
below cost, it represents an aggressive form of price deflation that
creates "all sorts of disturbances in the market." He noted that in
France it is illegal to sell a book below cost, adding, "I would
welcome similar legislation here."

Hachette is receiving its customary wholesale price from Wal-Mart and
Amazon, Mr. Young said. "We aren't subsidizing this in any way," he
said. "Not a cent. And Wal-Mart doesn't get a special discount."

...
The Wal-Mart-Amazon faceoff was a hot topic Friday at the Frankfurt
Book Fair, where reaction ranged from shock to resignation. "I'm
absolutely horrified," said Maja Thomas, senior vice president for
digital and audio at Hachette Book Group, publisher of the popular
Twilight series. "What you get is a race to the bottom."

The Frankfurt fair, which has roots dating back five centuries, is the
premier annual gathering for the book publishing industry, drawing
thousands of publishing executives and other visitors from around the
world.

Most U.S. executives at the fair declined to speak publicly about the
price war, for fear of offending either of the retailers. Both of them
are major buyers of books from the likes of Bertelsmann AG's Random
House, Pearson PLC's Penguin Group and News Corp.'s HarperCollins
Publishers. (News Corp. owns The Wall Street Journal.)

No. The retailers are selling the book below their cost to drive
traffic to their site, either bricks & mortar or web

It's how retail works. If a retailer pays $1,000,000. for his
merchandise when he makes $1,000,000 in sales; all the rest is
profit. He can sell it at whatever price he wants.

On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 21:25:53 -0800 (PST), Ernst Blofeld

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On Nov 2, 9:17 pm, smor... at (no spam) board.com wrote:
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:46:17 -0800 (PST), Ernst Blofeld

blofel... at (no spam) hotmail.com> wrote:
No. The retailers are selling the book below their cost to drive
traffic to their site, either bricks & mortar or web

And faux, Moonie times, WorldNut daily, American
speckledtater, and dozens of other rightwing places
order it by the truckload and give it away to
mushbrains.

Um, no. It's a best seller driven by grass roots demand.

You know that because of what?

If the aforementioned outlets giving it away inflate
the numbers----what evidence do you have that Walmart,
etal, is influenced that way.

On Nov 2, 9:17 pm, smor... at (no spam) board.com wrote:
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:46:17 -0800 (PST), Ernst Blofeld

blofel... at (no spam) hotmail.com> wrote:
No. The retailers are selling the book below their cost to drive
traffic to their site, either bricks & mortar or web

And faux, Moonie times, WorldNut daily, American
speckledtater, and dozens of other rightwing places
order it by the truckload and give it away to
mushbrains.

Um, no. It's a best seller driven by grass roots demand.

On Nov 2, 9:17 pm, smor... at (no spam) board.com wrote:
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:46:17 -0800 (PST), Ernst Blofeld

blofel... at (no spam) hotmail.com> wrote:
No. The retailers are selling the book below their cost to drive
traffic to their site, either bricks & mortar or web

And faux, Moonie times, WorldNut daily, American
speckledtater, and dozens of other rightwing places
order it by the truckload and give it away to mushbrains.

Um, no. It's a best seller driven by grass roots demand. That's why
WalMart
and Amazon are in a price war: it's one of the most popular upcoming
books. If it was driven by a few major buyers WalMart and Amazon
wouldn't be interested; they sell to individuals, and the whole point
of
the price war is to drive individuals to their sites, not a half-dozen
institutional buyers.

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On Oct 24, 5:31 am, Cliff <Clhuprichguessw... at (no spam) aoltmovetheperiodc.om
wrote:
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2009/10/23/sarah-pal....

  LOL
  And it's not even published yet !!!
--
Cliff

That's OK, Glenn and Mark's books are flying off the shelves in Ohio.
You have to call around or go to Amazon.com

Lots of idiots in Ohio?

Cliff <Clhuprichguesswhat at (no spam) aoltmovetheperiodc.om> wrote in
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On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:45:58 -0500, Jim Alder <jimalder at (no spam) ssnet.com> wrote:

Cliff <Clhuprichguesswhat at (no spam) aoltmovetheperiodc.om> wrote in
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On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:14:51 -0500, Jim Alder <jimalder at (no spam) ssnet.com> wrote:

Cliff <Clhuprichguesswhat at (no spam) aoltmovetheperiodc.om> wrote in
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On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:18:10 -0500, Jim Alder <jimalder at (no spam) ssnet.com
wrote:

Cliff <Clhuprichguesswhat at (no spam) aoltmovetheperiodc.om> wrote in
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On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:00:29 -0500, Jim Alder <jimalder at (no spam) ssnet.com
wrote:

So how much should she sell for?

I'm not selling them. I (We) don't know how much they cost
wholesale.

Selling Palin.

Thank you for making your meaningless responses as brief as possible.
Quite a timesaver.

Indeed.

http://anchorage.craigslist.org/ads/1443452226.html
http://anchorage.craigslist.org/ads/1443439108.html
http://anchorage.craigslist.org/ads/1433349259.html

Ok, so now you're a perv. So?

"Selling Palin."

THAT DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING, CLIFF!!!

"Selling Palin."

I take it back. It means you're an idiot.

    Sorry, that won't fly with these people. They are working under the
undeniable assumption that the book is a dog. They don't want to hear or use
the word "bestseller" with Palin's book. It has to be a dog because they hate
the writer.

On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:25:39 -0700, Winston_Smith <not_real at (no spam) bogus.net> wrote:

Cliff <Clhuprichguesswhat at (no spam) aoltmovetheperiodc.om> wrote:
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:21:18 -0700, Winston_Smith <not_real at (no spam) bogus.net> wrote:
Cliff <Clhuprichguesswhat at (no spam) aoltmovetheperiodc.om> wrote:

I wrote "marketing Palin".

Tell a lie often enough and someone will believe it. You wrote "the
neocons & wingers were marketing Palin". But they are not. You are
full of shit.

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/11/william_kristol_eyeing_role_as.html
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/10/sarah_palin_overheated_conserv.html

You wrote none of this prior to your erroneous remark.

I'm not at fault for you not knowing much.
Who did you think chose & marketed her?

On Nov 1, 9:26 pm, Winston_Smith <not_r... at (no spam) bogus.net> wrote:
Too_Many_Tools <too_many_to... at (no spam) yahoo.com> wrote:
On Oct 30, 10:18 pm, Winston_Smith <not_r... at (no spam) bogus.net> wrote:
Cliff <Clhuprichguessw... at (no spam) aoltmovetheperiodc.om> wrote:
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:57:17 -0700, Winston_Smith <not_r... at (no spam) bogus.net> wrote:
I didn't characterize them one way or the other.  I just pointed out
they exist and they will be a political factor.  It is foolish to
pretend they don't exist or that they won't have an effect.

 The idiot vote.
 Sell them a pack of lies ... ort he same ones again ... by then
they may have forgotten .......

It worked for Obama.

Maybe.
But it worked twice for Bush.
TMT

Agreed.  Thanks for accepting that Bush and Obama are just about the
same thing.

"Thanks for accepting that Bush and Obama are just about the
same thing." ws

so where does that leave you.