What percentage were bulk buys (ie GOP welfare for shills)?

a stake through the heart and exposure to sunlight is probably the only sure-fire cure.

most of the political books are bulk buys made to gin up the numbers...

Vile creature

She will only rest until the the the conditions for her to once again rise from her crypt return (maybe another war). Then she will spit venom and breathe fire once again, reducing all who do not conform to her myopic view of the world to ashes.

It's good to pay as little attention to Ann Coulter as possible, not watch her, refuse to read anything she's ever committed to print, and so on.

But of course being totally unaware of her is flirting with dangerous ignorance, so presumably most people were aware of the unexpected — and unprecedented — pushback from right wing talk show hosts when she was first touting her "Bill Clinton is gay" thing a few years ago.

To my mind that was the turning point. (Or shark jumping off point, pr point of epic fail, or whatever the kids are calling it these days.) It's not that the right wing gave up on her — it seemed clear, and has continued to seem clear, that she herself has lost even her grip on the right wing's own twisted discourse.

It happens with these authors sometimes. Take a token, hype her up, tell her she has actual real talent and she's not just there out of some perverse enactment of Republicans' own stereotype of affirmative action .. and pretty soon she starts thinking for herself, with that feeble, underdeveloped organ that has heretofore never gotten much exercise.

It's bound to end in tears.

Why haven't you brought up the recent comments from her towards Coulter? I doubt it's had a serious effect on her book sales but I was hoping Salon would look into this story a bit more. I'm actually impressed by what she has had to say. The Rachel Maddow interview was pretty good and really gets at what Obama's campaign was about even though she's a republican.

There's always a market for hate-mongering. I think it's just really the economic crisis. When (if?) Americans are all rich again her book sales will increase.

When I need a Coulter fix, I do it via the public library. She's entertaining, for sure, but I don't need to pay for that kind of entertainment.

Indeed. Is the wingnut welfare drying up, or are book buyers just not into bullshiters, er, her?

Maybe the drop off in sales has to do with the same story being told over and over. How many different ways can you tell the Coulter story? Democrats are lame sissies who pander to terrorists and eat their young.

I get it. I got it the first two times. I don't need to get it again.

Pulled from their "Our Dumb Century" book, speaking of Onion stuff.

(It only really went up to ~1997/98, but still fun).

Yeah, she's called Karma, and she's here for some ass whooping.

Let's see, should I buy Coulter's new book, or should I just use that cash to line the bottom of the birdcage?

Either way, I think I'd get the exact same value.

As others have noted, bulk buys make up much of conservative political book sales. To the point that Rush and Coulter complained about it. Seems like that's all she's got left and even that is down. I wonder if anyone bought her latest book or if the bulk buy went straight into a landfill.

but unfortunately she's still got some time left to spew...let's check back in another 5, 6 years.

What is truly shocking to me is what seems to be the pathetic number of books sold (disregarding potential wingnut welfare bulk buys) even at her peak, just under 400,000........I'm the furthest thing from an expert on publishing, but this strikes me as a pathetically low number for someone with frequent national exposure.

GRANTED (and I say this "academically", not as a slam), the primary demographic that she appeals to is low income/low education......not probably hardback book purchaser as a rule, but still.....always known that your full blown wingnut (as proxied by someone interested enough to purchase her books) is a small but very vocal minority but......

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I'd like to believe the message in this post and the accompanying article, but the numbers, as presented, aren't fully sufficient to support the claims. How long did it take to sell those 100k copies? For that same time period, what was the volume for the earlier two books? We can't tell whether the larger numbers for the older books might not be due (at least in part) to a longer period of time or something like that.

If you click on the article, it says that the 100k figure "only reflects around 70 percent of actual sales" - so actual sales are apparently around 143k. And it also says that figure is for 2 months of sales - so she's sold about half as many in 2 months as her last book sold total. I have no idea how long her other books were on sale, but they were presumably on sale for more than 2 months.

Sales generally drop off significantly over time, sure... but how much? Is it typically the case that the first two months represent 90% of total expected sales? 75%? 50%? Or, if there isn't a "typical" case, how about the comparable figures for her previous two books - at the 2 month mark, how much of their current total sales volumes had been sold?

If we had this data, the article and the accompanying post here would be a lot better supported.

she sucks

Wow, two dream headlines back to back:

“DOJ drops "enemy combatant" designation”

and

“Is this the end for Ann Coulter?”

Does this Friday the 13th apply to wing-nuts only? Alas, I suspect the latter line may just be wishful thinking. In addition to the poor economy (which may have limited both bulk and real sales) I there are other timing issues. Republicans are scrambling to recover from their losses and I imagine many of them suspect that Coulter’s clowning is not going to be any help. Even the term “Liberal Victims” appears out of step with these times of perceived liberal triumphs and a whole new onslaught of victims from across the political and economic spectrum.

Every successful player has their miss-steps and those who learn the right lessons usually come back stronger. Coulter’s whole persona is more about selling books than providing any kind of insightful ideology, so I’m sure she will analyze this set-back carefully, identify the mistakes and re-adjust with precision on her next work. The subject matter will be more timely, the shock lines better triangulated. I suspect her next book will focus solely on demonizing Obama, by the time it comes out, the faithful will be starving for the comfort food of her extreme, though baseless snarking. Hope I’m wrong.