Right-Wing Publishers Worry About Future

[babylonsister]

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/06/03/entertainment/e095627D00.DTL&type=entertainment

Right-Wing Publishers Worry About Future

By HILLEL ITALIE, AP National Writer


(06-03) 09:56 PDT NEW YORK, (AP) --

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Authors of the right are unsure who to attack, and who to defend. There are no clear front-runners, Democratic or Republican, for the 2008 election. Democrats took over Congress after the 2006 election, but publishers agree they have been in power too briefly, and have accomplished too little, to anger the right.

Meanwhile, publishers say they rarely see proposals for books that praise Bush. His presidency is perceived as essentially over, and increasingly unpopular, even among those who have supported him.

"The ongoing war in Iraq and his positions on immigration and education has made it harder to get anyone to write books that rally behind him," Marji Ross said.

For liberals, as noted by BookExpo speaker Paul Krugman, the current trend is re-energizing the left, moving beyond the rants of Michael Moore's "Stupid White Men" and Krugman's 2003 best seller, "The Great Unraveling." Krugman, promoting the fall release "The Conscience of a Liberal," called for a "New" New Deal and expressed relief over President Bush's declining approval ratings.


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[blondeatlast]

1. Uh-oh. Can't make enough profit to fund giving scads of hardcovers to donors anymore

(which they do for the sole purpose of driving them up the bestseller lists)?

That's how the likes of Ann Coulter's latest screech--I mean SCREED (hell, I was right the first time) makes it. Few people actually read them.

They also have their minions pad queues at libraries.

[Chulanowa]

2. My advice?

Get out of the hate propaganda business and publish cookbooks, instead.

[hughee99]

3. It makes it tough to sell books

when your target audience is essentially illiterate.

[muntrv]

4. Cry me a river for Degenerate, I mean Regenry, publishing!

:nopity:

[eppur_se_muova]

5. They shouldn't worry too much ... they might not have one. nt