Cuomo’s “All Things Possible: Setbacks and Success in Politics and Life” was published by the Harper Collins imprint Harper in October 2014. The publisher ordered a print run of 200,000 copies, but sold only 3,200.
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Here’s hoping he’s the democrat candidate in 2020.
“It must be great being a powerful Democrat. (Stupid)People throw money at you to write books no one reads.”
FIFY
Last time I saw a mouth like that it had a hook in it: Rodney, we miss you.
Gee. Kinda looks like the large New York publishers are in bed with the DNC doesn’t it? They’ve been getting away with this as long as I can remember.
I particularly enjoy when a conservative singer, actor, author, or any other talent hits the scene with a new book, song, show, etc., and the left tries to throw that person under the bus. The result is skyrocketing sales. Lefties can’t figure out how to do that to themselves.
3200?
Must be required reading for some state employees.
not so unique way to get a payoff from someone
Crooked politicians and money go together like a horse and carriage!
Now we know what everyone on his Christmas gift list received.
Someone forgot to buy up a bunch of the books to get it on the #1 list. That is the only reason Obama had his books on top. It was purchased en masse by schools, libraries etc.
Article inaccurate, says the book is $13.05 on Amazon, when it’s really $10.99 or FREE audio book.
Top review for the audio book: “I downloaded it for free, but it was still too much. I want my time back.”
Probably hoping he would be Killary’s SOS then he could make it required reading and make the government buy the remaining copies at full price and pass them around to the State Department offices around the world.
Hey it worked for Killary.
So now we know for sure that Quirky Cuomo has 3200 people that work for him or owes their job to him!
This is an old practice, but the normal scam is for “donors” to buy up several cases of books. The way this one worked, Harper Collins paid for it all themselves. There are a lot of corrupt politicians out there. One publisher can’t carry them all.
aptly titled book.
700k for selling 3200 copies.
truly all things are possible even if not likely.
Harper Collins is probably a competent publisher. They have some history. They probably had a money guarantee from a Demorat slush fund to cover the EXPECTED LOOOOOSER!
This is why Hillary is the green candidate. He could have pocketed the same amount of money, for the same number of people, with 3 or 4 speeches, and saved a hundred acre wood. Sad.
This id payoff money, pure and simple. The truly aggravating part of this is the taxpayers ponied up some of this money because I’m sure Harper took the advance as an expense and the unsold books as a loss. Trump needs to tell congress to make a law that states that a Publisher can give any advance they want but only against actual royalties from book sales. After one year the difference is returned to the publisher and from then on the publisher can issue a royalty check for books actually sold. You make the law apply to all authors or only to active or retired politicians.
Per the title, it seems more the former than the latter.
Where’d all the money get laundered too?
Hilary Clinton got a $14 million advance for a book nobody read. Same dirty dealing as bags full of cash, no consequences.
SOP in the world of politics … SOP.
Another one of those “No Smoking Gun” corruptions that every-fuckin-body knows is corruption but nobody’s willing to do a fucking thing about because each hopes to be the next profiteer.
This is how we become saddled with corruption and can’t seem to shake it loose.
izlamo delenda est …
It was the catchy title and the tantalizing cover photo that drove the sales. Inside, I am told, it plagiarizes Michael Knowles’ Reasons to Vote for Democrats.
No doubt we’ll see this one on the dollar store shelves….
If only any of the Cuomos were half as smart as they believed themselves to be.
the publisher seems to have taken a big loss on that book-maybe they will think before they publish someone.
Money laundering for the 21st century…
Those 3200 went to colleges and public libraries,
bet yah!