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To: greenspirit who wrote (244756)	4/6/2008 1:52:53 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 794039

About Clinton's books.... If he were to have the royalties the rest of us might get, he would have had to sell 30,250,000 books.....Looks like the number below is CONSIDERABLY lower than that....No big surprise though, considering what else might have gone into the 'deal'.... en.wikipedia.org My Life is a 2004 autobiography written by former President of the United States Bill Clinton, who left office on January 20, 2001. The book was published by the Knopf Publishing Group; the book sold in excess of 2,250,000 copies. He had received what was at the time the world's highest book advance fee, believed to have been worth US$12 million; at the announcement of media personality Oprah Winfrey's future weight loss book, it was said that her undisclosed advance fee had broken this record.[1] en.wikipedia.org Published work In 2004, Clinton released a personal autobiography, My Life. The book was published by the Knopf Publishing Group at Random House on June 22, 2004, and set a worldwide record for single day non-fiction book sales according to the publisher.[90] Later released as an audio book, total sales were in excess of 400,000 copies. He received U.S. $12 million in advance as a writer's fee.[91] In September 2007, he released a second book, Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World, which also became a bestseller.[92] The book is about citizen activism and the role of public charity and public service in the modern world.[93] And his 2nd book, published in Sept 2007 --- en.wikipedia.org Clinton Foundation en.wikipedia.org Criticism The Clinton Foundation has been criticized for a lack of transparency. Although U.S. law does not currently require nonprofit charities --including presidential foundations-- to disclose the identities of their contributors, critics say the names of donors should be disclosed because Bill Clinton's wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, might become president of the United States. Commentator Matthew Yglesias wrote in an op-ed (Los Angeles Times, October 4, 2007) that the Clintons should make public the names of foundation donors to avoid any appearance of impropriety. [15] Bill Clinton's presidential library sold names of several donors to infoUSA, a direct marketing data firm founded by longtime Clinton donor Vin Gupta. On April 4th, 2008 when the Clinton's released their tax returns for the past 30 years, it was found that their charitable donations went to their own charity foundation. [1] [16