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To: KLP who wrote (51111)	6/21/2004 3:50:26 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 794011

How many did her's sell? The publisher says 2.25 million. Bookscan says 1.5 million. In any case, one hell of a lot of books. Hillary's Book Sales May Be Half of Publisher's Claim New York Sen. Hillary Clinton's publisher, Simon & Schuster, is claiming that her book "Living History" sold "more than 2.25 million copies" in 2003. But Nielsen Bookscan numbers published last week suggest that the actual sales figure for Clinton's book may be less than half that number. "Oh, how they laughed when Sen. Hillary Clinton sat down to write - at the damn-fool publisher, Simon & Schuster, that ponied up an $8 million advance," mused New York Daily News book editor Sherryl Connelly on Thursday. "Well, S & S has done fine," Connelly declared. "So far, 'Living History' has sold more than 2.25 million copies." Last week, however, Nielsen Bookscan numbers cited by the Drudge Report put Clinton's book sales at just over 1 million copies sold [1,084,520, to be exact] - less than half of what her publisher told the Daily News. Bookscan captures about 70 percent to 80 percent of total sales - tracking purchases at major outlets like Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Borders and Costco, but missing other outlets like WalMart and airport bookstores. Still, even assuming Bookscan missed as much as 30 percent of Mrs. Clinton's book sales, the adjusted number would bring her sales total up to only 1.5 million copies [1,550, 863, to be exact]. That's a whopping 750,000 fewer copies than Mrs. Clinton's publisher claimed to the Daily News. newsmax.com