No one is buying Michele Bachmann's book

[Kadie]

No one is buying Michele Bachmann's book
By Jessica Lussenhop Thu., Dec. 8 2011 at 10:48 AM

Michele Bachmann's new book has been on shelves for two weeks now, and that's apparently where it's staying.
"Core of Conviction" is a 224-page memoir and political manifesto, filled with half-truths and 109 exclamation points. Bachmann's been on a book tour since its release before Black Friday.

But the chance to meet Bachmann and gaze back into those crazy eyes hasn't been enough to inspire sales.

According to figures from Nielsen BookScan, which gets its numbers from major book retailers like Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble, Bachmann's life story has only sold 3,000 copies in two weeks. Nielsen says its numbers cover about 75 percent of the retail market for books, though it does not currently get figures from Walmart or Sam's Club.

On Amazon.com's "Best Sellers in Politics" list, "Core of Conviction" ranked 96th. Incidentally, the book was outpaced by Jesse Ventura's latest, which came in at 91st.

Not a total shock. Even when she was signing copies at the Mall of America in her home state, only 50 people turned up.

more...
http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2011/12/no_one_is_buying_michele_bachmanns_book.php

[Cigar11]

1. It's Got Words in it? n/

[DFW]

4. Remember the Bush version of Home On The Range

Home, home on the range
Where the beer and the cantaloupe lay
Where seldom is heard
A three-syllable word
Or if so, then It's one I can say.

[Fire Walk With Me]

10. That is awesome :)

[DFW]

15. We actually made a video out of that:

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[Fire Walk With Me]

17. I do believe I'm going to share that around.

Awesome!

[DFW]

27. be our guest!

It was our first video, must be 5 or 6 years old by now.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. The mall of murika is gigantic. Home turf, and she sells 50 copies?

Hell, my autobiography (mostly fiction, just like hers) would sell that well.

[Brother Buzz]

20. 50 people turned up

No indication anyone actually purchased the book. Heck, if I was in the area, I'd pop in just to peek at the dog and pony show.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

28. Between this and Sarah's absolute failure in selling her reality show,

I am having a good day.

[Brother Buzz]

33. That, plus Trump being tossed onto the dung heap

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017696

Looks to be a good week all around.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

34. BroBuzz, w/Trump, how does one tell?

Just curious.

[Brother Buzz]

37. Even my pea-brain can figure that one out

"The Donald doth protest too much, methinks."

[arbusto_baboso]

3. None of her fans can read.

So what did she think would happen?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

6. combined with their Faux News source of data,

even if they wanted to go to the mall, they probably ended up in their home town, then wondered where Michelle was.

[Erose999]

5. Bachmann has a book? I work at a library and I haven't seen it yet....

[Cigar11]

7. Only if your Library is a Trailer n/

[Angry Dragon]

8. Nice attack on people that live in trailers

or mobile homes to some

[Cigar11]

12. I’ve seen them and I’ve been in them … Trust me, it’s no attack.

If you know of anyone who is in one, tell them I can do better.

If there’s anything the US has plenty of … is many Good Homes.

I’m also a Landlord … not a Slumlord

[Angry Dragon]

18. By infering that only people in trailers would buy

bachmann's book is not an attack??

And as far as your reply I have no idea what you are saying..........

[ChairmanAgnostic]

36. I suspect it meant they don't buy books.

Then again, DUers read far more books than the average bear.

[Cigar11]

40. Lighten up Francis ...

BTW, did you see Swamp People the other light on the History Channel

[RebelOne]

22. Thank you. n/t

[Cigar11]

39. Hay I grew up in a crappy neighborhood and that where I also grew thick skin. n/

[Erose999]

14. Theres a trailer park near here that has a library in one of the trailers supposedly.

I think thats kind of cool myself...

[RebelOne]

21. Excuse me! But what does a trailer have to do with it?

I live in a mobile home and I am sick of those who look down their noses at us trailer denizens. We are not all knuckle-dragging, beer-swilling, foul-mouthed Republicans

[CreekDog]

9. Well my table is wobbly

but not *that* wobbly.

[Fire Walk With Me]

11. How sad is it when we don't even need to go out and mic check her?

[opihimoimoi]

13. Truly an AIRHEAD, usually empty.....attempts to write a book.....? the sales tells us whats inside

HOT AIR

What a dufus....she is so pathetic

[RoccoR5955]

16. That's not true...

I just got a cord of them for about $50. Cheaper than firewood, and they burn better too!

[Life Long Dem]

19. "filled with half-truths"

No one wants to listen to her half truths. She spins a topic so much, no one can understand her.

[joeybee12]

23. I hate to say it, but this is why Palin is smarter than Bachman, or has smarter

people around her...you run for Prez, you're under the microscope...Michelle was crazy enough to be in the spotlight before running and she should have stayed out and wouldn't have gotten so much scrutiny...the same idiots who bought Palin's book would have bought hers.

[HughBeaumont]

24. Sooner or later . ..

. . . boilerplate RW Roveshit, book after book after book, no matter who the author, is going to wear thin after a while to all but the hardest of fascist sympathizers.

What is she saying that's different from all of the others? My guess is not very much.

[KamaAina]

25. Charmin is a hell of a lot cheaper

especially when you buy the 12-pack.

[malaise]

26. Thank you America

[ThoughtCriminal]

29. No Library is complete without this book!

Technically true.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

30. 109 exclamation points -- one every two pages

Michelle's writing sounds like that of an emotionally charged 12 year old girl writing in her diary. Apparently, she can't make a point without signaling to the reader that she's trying to make point.

[w8liftinglady]

31. wanna have fun? Here's the link to Amazon. rate it....

Core of Conviction
http://www.amazon.com/Core-Conviction-Story-Michele-Bachmann/dp/1595230904/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1323818669&sr=8-1

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

32. LOL -- some of those "reviews" are absolutely hilarious

"...I found Bachmann's explanation of quantum gravity to be the clearest and most concise I have yet come across. She posits that the generalization of n-1 Hilbert Space may be reduced to a negative mass of hypercontextualized resublimated thiotimoline. I don't know how anything could be simpler than that. ..."

[teddy51]

35. She needs to rename it to "Bat Shit Crazy" and it might become a best seller. n/t

[tabbycat31]

38. It was printed on the wrong type of paper

Books like hers need to be printed on 2-ply paper.