6,000 Copies of Pure Gold, Baby!
Some of you may know that Dick Cheney's daughter Mary is a lesbian. If you didn't already know it, John Kerry outted her during a presidential debate in '04, in what was a spectacularly awkward moment. Kerry's delivery of the word "lesbian"? Hilarious.
Anyway, Simon and Schuster paid Mary Cheney a one-million-dollar advance to write a memoir. In the month since it's been published, it has sold a whopping 6,000 copies. If Simon and Schuster was charging $166.67 per copy it would've almost broken even. Except, of course, shipping costs and overhead. Unfortunately, it's being sold for about fifteen bucks at Amazon. Whoops.
But what did they expect? I mean, seriously. Right-wing Cheney fans think Mary's burning in hell for her unholy acts of animalistic hedonism, and left-wing lesbian fans resent her lack of self-respect for campaigning for a bunch of war-mongering gay bashers. In other words, no one wants to buy this book.
So I want to know how many of those 6,000 copies sold were purchased by Dick and Lynne as gifts to friends and family. Maybe they're giving them away as no-bid contract perks to Halliburton!
Labels: hypocrisy
posted by Dan G @ 3:26 PM
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3 Comments:
According to OCLC, 369 of them are in libraries around the world, including 5 at my very own library, and 20 in the Queens Borough system. Happy reading!
I'm surprised I've never told you this, but the Queens Public Library was bragging a couple years ago that, per capita use in Queens is higher than anywhere else in the country. And we've got a lot of people, so that's a lot of reading.
I wonder how many Queens residents are reading Mary Cheney's memoir. Can you find that out?
I'm a lesbian. I might not have mentioned that in my earlier books. But I really, truly am a lesbian.
Can I have my million dollars now?
James Frey
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