Lynch book fails to excite on first day

[LynneSin]

Kinda a downer for what was suppose to be the hottest story out of Iraq:

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http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/books/11/11/people.lynch.book.reut/

Lynch book fails to excite on first day
Tuesday, November 11, 2003 Posted: 6:10 PM EST (2310 GMT)

NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Despite a media blitz, the biography of America's best-known soldier from the Iraq war, Jessica Lynch, appeared unlikely Tuesday to translate into big cash as the first day of sales fell short of expectations.

After days of magazine covers, TV movies, tabloid tales and television interviews, first-day sales of her authorized biography, "I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story," fell well short of other high-profile books like Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's memoir, which had buyers lining up around the block.

Not a copy had been sold by midday Tuesday, Veterans Day, at a Barnes & Noble store on Chicago's North Side, said an employee who declined to be identified. The store would not disclose how many of the books sold.

"I've yet to have anyone ask about it," the employee said.

At a Manhattan Barnes & Noble, an employee described interest as "moderate. It certainly has not been exceptional." Another nearby store sold one copy by lunchtime.

On online bookseller Amazon.com, the book ranked 21st in sales, well short of top-selling novel "The Da Vinci Code" and the latest get-slim-quick fad, "The South Beach Diet."

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[Chomskyite]

1. Scaife must not be making his bulk buys

. . . for future mulching.

[LynneSin]

2. she criticized the Pentagon

which means Scaife wouldn't bother bulking this book.

However if she praised the war and Bush - that's a different story.

I think we're seeing payback for her criticism in the form of a flop book!

:shrug:

[LittleApple81]

3. I would not accept this book even as a gift. And it is not because

of her. She has been played by everybody. I feel sorry for Lynch but I am not interested in wasting my time with a book about her.

[LynneSin]

4. I'd accept it as a gift

And then regift to someone else who I need to give a gift to but don't feel like spending the money!!

[GabysPoppy]

5. You regifter you

What would Kramer say about you?