I did assume they can
Those who don’t read, choose not to educate themselves or expose themselves to anything that might demand actual thinking.
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I kinda hope they DID, but with a clause that he has to pay it all back if sales fall below a given figure. Just for the hassle and embarrassment it might cause him.
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And not a very good door stop either. It would also not make for good toilet paper. (I have standards, yo.)
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Obviously someone forgot to alert them. I’m sure that they’ll get right on it.
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I call that cohort “aliterate”.
Someone who is illiterate can’t read.
Someone who is aliterate can read, but doesn’t.
Of the two, only one of them is almost always a choice in Western societies.
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Yes, all of these things - hate on NJ all you want, at least we knew that Christie, and Trump, were both crooks. Unfortunately for some, thats a reason to vote for either of them.
Christie only won the governorship by running on a “Not Corzine” platform. After that he didn’t do jack shit.
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Not the first cult to use that strategy. Check out this article on Scientology from over 30 years ago:
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It was easier in Scientology’s day. They knew exactly which book stores were used to tally the NYT lists, so they could skew the lists without having to buy so many books in this day of chain central inventory.
I wonder if the GOP cult mass orders boxes, then ships the boxes back to the book chains?
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Chris Carter’s 90s TV show Millennium never grabbed the following that the X-Files did but there was one episode that brilliantly satirized Scientology (a topic most of Hollywood was still too scared to take on in 1997). In that episode it’s revealed that all members of the “Selfosophy” movement regularly buy individual copies of their founders’ books to ensure they stay on the bestseller lists for all time.
The episode was a good bit of acting by guest star Charles Nelson Reilly too.
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That last part, I can tell you without killing.
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North Jersey, maybe. I live in Ocean County. While they certainly don’t like Christie here, they looooooove Trump. I hate it here so much.
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Pussy Hands!
I’m pretty sure that is how an advance works, in that it’s an advance payment, against future royalties.
If the advance was big enough he’ll owe the publisher money. Wheee! What fun that would be.
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Silly billy, he’s supposed to buy 100,000 copies of his own book to make the best seller list.
But wowsa - only 2,500? That is unpopular.
The way I see it, the right thinks he’s too cozy with liberal media, and the left think he is a Republican scum bag, and anyone in between just doesn’t care one way or the other.
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Well, that’s not normally how it works, assuming the author kept up their side of the contract. It’s a gamble by the publisher that earnings will be at least that good, as the standard is that they eat the difference if there is one. Normally that gives them an incentive to low-ball the advance, but sometimes publishers wildly miscalculate, and every so often it seems like an author with connections deliberately gets an advance far beyond what’s reasonable, as a way of someone at the publisher funneling them money they wouldn’t otherwise get in sales.
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I think the word you’re looking for is “doodies”.
Nah, it’s sitting on the back of the toilet as a decorative item. The library of the right.
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Sure they love trump in Ocean County, but they still know he’s a crook.
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Books are so last century. He should have made a YouTube video instead. /s
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Deep down I want to believe some of those 2500 were bought from a wholesaler who sells books by the inch. Then HGTV designers put them on inaccessible shelves spine-inwards as non-objectionable decorations.
They might also have found a useful life as table leg levelers. They’d be slightly more durable than a wad of napkins. And they’d be perfect decor for a North Jersey bagel shop!
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Ain’t nothing wrong with Terlit readin.
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