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Hilary got a $14 million advance and the book is at #102 a month after the release.
I can picture the craziness of the Democrat machine doing everything in their power to make sure that her book isn't filling up the discount book bins at the same time she is running for President.
Just another way to "legally" launder money to (hopefully) the power couple.
The press and other various leftists are pushing her hard, I honestly think most of the public is just tired of her. Only the dem insiders are excited about her. I hear she's a woman???? And a Clinton.
I can't stand the Clinton's or the "O's" ...I'll be glad when they are out of The Public Eye!
Jordan Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, outlined what he calls the "Hawking Index" in the Wall Street Journal over the weekend. The index is a way to estimate how far into books people actually get. It's named for Stephen Hawking, author of the dense "A Brief History of Time" which, swear to God, I've actually read. (In part.)
It works like this: Every time people highlight something in a book on their Kindles, Amazon records that data. Ellenberg takes the top five highlights listed at the site for any given book and correlates them to a page number. Comparing the average page number of those five highlights to the length of the book gives you a sense of how many people made it how far in. (He adds: "Disclaimer: This is not remotely scientific and is for entertainment purposes only!" Which, fine.) The summer's most-read book? Donna Tartt's "The Goldfinch." Least-read? Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the Twenty-First Century," for which the notations only get about 2.4 percent of the way in.
So, naturally, we decided to apply this methodology to "Hard Choices" and other recent or comparable political books. And we have our own ranking, which we now present in order from estimated-least- to estimated-most-read.
1. "Hard Choices," by Hillary Clinton. Hawking Index: 2.04 percent. Well, there you have it. The deepest into Hard Choices the popular highlights get is page 33, a quote about smart power. Three of the five most-popular highlights occur within the first 10 pages. We will note the same caveat that Ellenberg applies to Piketty. "Hard Choices" is fairly new, and fairly long. Still, though, one would think more people had made it past page 33.
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/pj-gladnick/2014/07/09/hillarys-hard-choices-plunges-below-amazon-top-100-less-month-after-rel#ixzz374xYPIxc
I can't speak for the goodness of her progeny, so Chelsea aside, that is an excellent point, HA. Her biggest claim to fame is that she has been a high profile player in an evil enterprise.