Ann Coulter’s book sales down.
Ann Coulter’s book sales down.
Earlier this year, “offensive” conservative author Ann Coulter launched yet another media tour to promote her latest book. But it apparently doesn’t appear to be working. According to Portfolio’s Jeff Bercovici, Coulter’s book sales are down:
But with it moving steadily down the best-seller list, it looks certain that Guilty will fall far short of matching her earlier results. Her 2006 polemic, Godless: The Church of Liberalism, sold 279,100 copies in hardcover, according to BookScan; Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terror, published in 2003, sold 396,600 hardcover copies, and 2002’s Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right, sold 333,100 copies, plus another 108,300 in paperback. (The two other books she published over that period, How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) and If Democrats Had Any Brains, They’d Be Republicans, are both collections rather than original works, so I left them out for the sake of apples-to-apples comparison.)
“Could it be that Barack Obama’s America has a smaller appetite for Coulter’s brand of take-no-prisoners, obey-no-logic conservatism?” asks Bercovici. (HT: Huffington Post)
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Of the 23%-ers, less than half can read at a 3rd grade level.
Her “market” is saturated.
So what else would we expect?
March 13th, 2009 at 11:14 amApparently, the RNC, Moral Majority, NRA, FauxSnooze and CNBC must be buying fewer books this year, driving Mann Coulter’s sales way down…
March 13th, 2009 at 11:16 amStop the presses!
That’s the idea, fcukwit.
March 13th, 2009 at 11:19 amWith Fox “News” ratings heading up as the wingnut closet cases convinced Obama is a gay-Muslim-communist flock to hear Beck preach about the end of days her sales should be stable or rising. I have to assume either (1) that the nutters have become so dumbed down that they have lost their limited ability to read; (2) that enough wingers have lost their jobs that they aren’t patronizing the Fox book store like they used to; or (3) that some of them have figured out that she has been spewing the same hateful screed for nearly a decade now without adding anything new. Any of those are fine with me although I find #3 the least likely.
March 13th, 2009 at 11:29 amIt’s also possible that the groups who buy her books by the pallet-load in order to inflate her sales have fallen on hard times — enough where they have had to cut back.
March 13th, 2009 at 11:29 amI am about to cry some crocodile tears.
March 13th, 2009 at 11:30 ammisshusseinmolly Says:
It’s also possible that the groups who buy her books by the pallet-load in order to inflate her sales have fallen on hard times — enough where they have had to cut back.
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Didn’t James Dobson and his Focus on the Family group in Colorado have to lay off staff after they dumped so much money into California’s Prop 8 election?
Gee…, w/ folks deserting the evangelical churches’ ranks these days, those poor fundies just might end up… well.. POOR!
March 13th, 2009 at 11:32 amdoc,
just pull the string
on the back of arch’s
(nee proud’s) neck
and out pops another random,
wingnuttia cliché,
“truth to power”
“hypocrite much”
etc., etc., etc.
:0
March 13th, 2009 at 11:33 amI said her books weren’t selling last week when she tried to ridicule Keith Olbermann’s education. I knew she was trying to get free publicity indirectly through Keith. Screw her Keith…just ignore her.
March 13th, 2009 at 11:33 amHow does her decline in book sales compare to the overall decline in sales as a result of the economy?
March 13th, 2009 at 11:35 amNice, Dr. Matt Hussein.
March 13th, 2009 at 11:37 ampax Says:
How does her decline in book sales compare to the overall decline in sales as a result of the economy?
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i give up.
how?
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March 13th, 2009 at 11:37 amShe is the new Queen of Mean, I guess the rest of the country is tired of her. I know I am.
March 13th, 2009 at 11:38 amWhat a skank. A bwitch.
Has at least one fan, right Archeeee?
March 13th, 2009 at 11:38 amAnd I should give a rat’s ass about mann colter anything, why.? …..Blessings
March 13th, 2009 at 11:40 amYet more evidence that wingnut-welfare is drying up. Heritage can’t afford to buy pallet-fuls of books to boost sales.
March 13th, 2009 at 11:40 amThat is surprising considering that it seems that TP gives her frequent publicity.
March 13th, 2009 at 11:43 am…or what missmolly said…
(damn…i left that reply window open for a while…)
March 13th, 2009 at 11:43 amCoultergeist, the walking corpse, hits the skids.
March 13th, 2009 at 11:45 amWhy anybody would bother to read or listen to Ann the Wingnut Wacko is beyond me. Except if she wrote wrote or talked about ‘10 Ways To Grow an Adams Apple’, or ‘Adams Apple, Sexist Part Of A Womens Body’.
March 13th, 2009 at 11:46 amfor the sake of apples-to-apples comparison
Shouldn’t that be “adam’s apples-to-adam’s apples comparison”?
March 13th, 2009 at 11:48 am60% is a bit high to blame on the economy. Is any other retail area seeing a 60%+ decline in business?
March 13th, 2009 at 11:51 amCan we do something about the appalling lameness of troll sarcasm? Can we sponsor a Troll Annex course or something?
March 13th, 2009 at 11:53 amwatchdog Says:
I bet this has nothing to do with the down economy. TP produces more hard hitting evidence indicating conservatism is a thing of the past. Keep up the phenomenal work!
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if you say so.
:)
bobbing adam’s apple?
that’s funny!
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March 13th, 2009 at 11:54 amShut up, Archie
March 13th, 2009 at 11:55 amwatchdog Says:
I bet this has nothing to do with the down economy.
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Perhaps it means right wing think tanks don’t have the money for bulk purchases these days…
March 13th, 2009 at 11:57 amralph the wonder llama Says:
Can we do something about the appalling lameness of troll sarcasm? Can we sponsor a Troll Annex course or something?
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there’s a troll drinking game.
every time arch repeats himself…
take a drink!
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March 13th, 2009 at 11:57 ammAnn Coulter’s book sales are down?
March 13th, 2009 at 12:00 pmWelcome to the $hit economy you and your ilk created.
Unfortunately, it ain’t funny, is it?
joe cantwell Says:
there’s a troll drinking game.
every time arch repeats himself…
take a drink!
What!? In short order we’d all be operating on the same limited number of brain cells as Archie himself! Of course, we’d still probably be more coherent and logical.
March 13th, 2009 at 12:01 pmpoor ol’ Archie.
poor ol’ Dogwash.
March 13th, 2009 at 12:06 pmtombaker Says:
poor ol’ Archie.
poor ol’ Dogwash.
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well it is sad, tom.
the bristol/levi breakup
has them all in a twitter.
:(
very sad indeed.
:(
March 13th, 2009 at 12:08 pmGosh, how could people say mean things like that about such a NICE lady like Ms. Coulter?
She’s always so polite.
And nice.
March 13th, 2009 at 12:17 pmwatchdog Says:
PatrioticLiberalChristian Says:
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joe cantwell Says:
there’s a troll drinking game.
every time arch repeats himself…
take a drink!
What!? In short order we’d all be operating on the same limited number of brain cells as Archie himself! Of course, we’d still probably be more coherent and logical.
Thats funny!
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feeling left out doggie?
you can play too. but
instead of a drink you
take a tab of oxycontin.
:)
just like your hero.
cool.
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March 13th, 2009 at 12:20 pm#12 when you said “screw her keith” you probaly made keith lose his breakfast.
March 13th, 2009 at 12:21 pmKlatu,
March 13th, 2009 at 12:24 pmI’ll challenge you each and every time on this.
First, don’t throw stones in glass houses when you accuse others of being money hungry Jews on another thread.
Second, mAnn Coulter has called me godless (I’m a Christian), without a brain (I own my own pharmacy), heartless (I help in the mental health community, as well as certain charities), clueless (I choose my political beliefs based on experience and direction, and challenge it when appropriate), among other false attacks.
She’s called for execution of opponents, she’s glorified the Oklahoma City bomber, she’s ridiculed politicians…etc.
All without repercussions, all without an inkling of an apology.
And as much as I try to refrain from personal attacks, she (and the likes of Oxybreath) will not escape my wrath of justifiable critique.
Got it?
Good.
Now STFU!
The RNC and other conservative groups are running out of money and have decided to spend what they have on trying to regain congressional seats rather than buying pallets of Coulter’s books. Too bad so sad for Mann Coulter.
March 13th, 2009 at 12:29 pmnorbizness Says:
That is surprising considering that it seems that TP gives her frequent publicity.
And how is TP “giving her frequent publicity” going to help the sales of her book? Do you really think that anyone other than the trolls on this site would be caught dead buying a MAnn Coulter book?
March 13th, 2009 at 12:34 pmKlatu,
Ann is an evil ugly mean person whose schtick is to be divisive and belittle others. When I call her skinny skank and a hateful c*nt, I just say it to belittle her.
Well that, and it’s honestly how I think of her.
March 13th, 2009 at 12:43 pmKlatu says:
Defending someone who’s Adam’s Apple is larger than his bra size.
March 13th, 2009 at 12:45 pmLOL!
Well, I guess my little game of “Turn Ann’s Book Around so the cover doesn’t show” has made an impact.
I kid you not, I do really, every time I see one, turn it around so the back cover shows.
Just doing my part.
We are starting to think that Archie Blowsgoats is Jake.
Same post style, same ignore thing, makes up stories about himself.
March 13th, 2009 at 12:56 pmI see ArchieB as the Wesley Crusher of this site. The instinctive reaction to reading his name is to tell him to shut up.
March 13th, 2009 at 1:03 pmThis is “news” to you progressives? All I can say is, ” wow “.
March 13th, 2009 at 1:04 pmA lot of those inflated “sales figures” are derived from bulk purchases by winger groups to give to their members as gifts. Maybe there’s less money available to do it now.
March 13th, 2009 at 1:06 pmI’m looking forward to her tales from prison. “Confessions of a fraudulent voter” expose.
March 13th, 2009 at 1:18 pmsimple man.
simple archie.
simple.
March 13th, 2009 at 1:19 pmchat
thanks you tskler a sana bana ona
March 13th, 2009 at 1:23 pmIt’s not really “news” since we saw it coming. But it is comforting confirmation of the downriver flush of wingnuttia.
March 13th, 2009 at 1:24 pmWe’re so sick of the Trans-sexual witch. Her rhetoric is so played out, all he/she does is criticize. What else is new about him/her?
March 13th, 2009 at 1:32 pmI think I need to stop reading the Think Progress blog. It has become boring in the extreme. Not many comments worth reading. Mostly one poster being nasty to another poster.
March 13th, 2009 at 1:41 pmAnd, yes, I agree, Ann Coulter gets a lot of attention on this site, and her lack of sales for this book is probably caused more by the economy than by losing fans from the Right.
Sorry to see you go, VinnieTheSnake.
Thanks for your constructive comments. We’ll take them under advisement.
Godspeed.
March 13th, 2009 at 1:42 pmGee, ann’s book sales are down.
Since all the sales of her previous books were driven by the “wingnut welfare” circuit of the American Enterprise Institute, Project for a New American Century, American Conservative Union, and others of their ilk, this simply reflects the changing financial fortunes of the republic party.
These shill organizations would shell out $millions in order to buy the coultergeist’s books by the pallet-load (as well as o’lielly’s, beck’s, ingraham’s, the list goes on) then give them away for free at CPAC and other republic party and conservative gatherings. Then the book could always be touted as a “NYT Bestseller!” with the added implication that its trenchant analyses were even acknowledged by that bastion of the far-left media, the New York Times.
This has been standard practice for at least as long as kkkarl has been involved in the party.
This should be a wake-up call to publishers: take this kind of dreck out of the conservative life-support system created by conservative think tanks and actually let the market decide on the value of the publication and you will see how the market actually values it.
I would no more pay $15+ for such a book than I would for a fire log–and they are both only suited for the same purpose.
March 13th, 2009 at 1:45 pmA simpleton Says:
This is “news” to you progressives? All I can say is, ” wow “.
Why do trolls never understand that this is a BLOG. It’s not a newspaper.
Get over it.
March 13th, 2009 at 1:46 pmNot that it matters, but for me, at least, I’m pretty satisfied at home and don’t need alternative recreational pleasures to curb my urges.
March 13th, 2009 at 1:49 pmNot sure if that’s what biranda is peddling, because I ain’t clicking it’s link, but, if biranda really want’s the hits, may I suggest any right wing blog? Or a Republican National Convention?
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I’d make other “SLUMPING” jokes about Ann but I don’t want to be accused of Witch bashing.
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March 13th, 2009 at 2:23 pmNow, if we can only get Ann Coulter’s pants down.
March 13th, 2009 at 2:41 pmWhy anyone would buy her stuff is beyond me. It is all the same kind of writing. Regurgitated rhetoric. Same things said time after time. No new insight into anything. All she has to do is change the book title each time.
March 13th, 2009 at 3:46 pmHer audience is dwindling – those who are her fans and are literate are fewer in number – others are simply tired of the same old trash she talks. She is more of a stand up comedian, like Dennis Miller. He’s not so popular any more either.
March 13th, 2009 at 4:23 pm“Ann Coulter’s book sales down.”
In translation: No one is buying Mann Coulter’s book. Look for her book to be in the dollar store coming soon.
March 13th, 2009 at 5:19 pmI’m thinking that after buying her first TWO books her fans finally realized they cant READ.
March 13th, 2009 at 7:39 pmOh- I thought you said her SCALES were down.Just thinking about the reptilian mating season, I guess.
March 13th, 2009 at 11:08 pm“If you’re not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you’re not a conservative at forty you have no brain.”
Winston Churchill quotes
March 15th, 2009 at 8:04 am