So why is Ann Coulter's book doing so poorly on I-Tunes?

[Goat or Panic]

It was released the same time as the hard-bound version, which thanks to bulk purchasing will likely debut at the # 1 spot on the NY Times bestseller list.

Bulk purchasing is where massive quantities of books are purchased in order to give the appearance of a book being successful. The books are then given away for free or a dollar or two on right-wing websites.

Since you can't really bulk-purchase copy-protected audio books on i-tunes, I figured I cruise over to see just how well her book would actually do without the benefit of being subsidized by her benefactor(s).

Although many of the other top-ten bestsellers on the NY Times bestseller fiction and non-fiction lists are represented in the i-tunes audio books top twenty, (Clinton's "Giving".... check, "The Secret"...check) Coulter's newest is not to be found in the top ten.

Or the top Twenty.

Or the top Thirty.

Or the top Fifty.

Or Seventy.

Or the top Ninety.

In fact, Coulter's book isn't even on the top 100 current best-selling audio books on i-tunes. Strange since she supposedly is such a popular "writer."

So why is Ann Coulter's book doing so poorly on I-Tunes?

No one's actually buying it, because they know they can eventually get it for free.
No one's actually buying it, (the audio-book) because they don't actually want to listen to her screeching voice.

No one's actually buying it, because when all is said and done Coulter is little more than an invention of the Republican party. A prop and a distraction with no discernible talent other than getting attention and pissing people off.

Go over to i-tunes audio books and check for yourselves.

[jgraz]

1. because anyone smart enough to use a computer won't buy it

And Rethug operatives can't use iTunes to make the volume purchases to inflate her sales figures.

[TomInTib]

2. The authors actually read their own work aloud?

I am totally unfamiliar with this i-tunes business.

Although I have read the name "i-tunes", I have no idea what it is.

I suppose it is time for me to wander over to dogpile or Google and learn something new.

[LeftCoast]

3. Not the author

The story is read by a professional narrator usually. I have a number of books from iTunes. They tend to be about the price of a hardcover, though sometimes more. The Harry Potter series is PRICEY, but then I suppose it's not bad if you also consider you can get something like 30 hours of listening depending on the book.

[Goat or Panic]

6. Coulter reads her own stuff

Thus doubling the pleasure of the listener.

:sarcasm:

[TomInTib]

8. Oh, God.

[backscatter712]

4. Mostly, it's for online music shopping.

Like music? Download Apple's iTunes software (works on Windows or Mac,) use it to go on Apple's online store, where you can buy online, and download the music on the spot, listen to it on your PC, or put it on your iPod. Pretty nifty if you don't mind the DRM.

I only vaguely recalled that iTunes expanded into movies and books (also instantly downloadable online.)

[backscatter712]

5. Bulk purchasing explains this, along with other tricks.

It was released the same time as the hard-bound version, which thanks to bulk purchasing will likely debut at the # 1 spot on the NY Times bestseller list.

This is one of the tricks that keeps the right wing fascist propaganda machine going. It's also why Lockheed Martin and Kerr McGee and such advertise on Fixed Noise and the other cable news channels, even though chances are good the audience isn't really in the market for fighter jets or offshore oil platforms. They aren't using the regular business model - the right wing is infusing TV, books and other media with money so they can shove their message down our throats, even though things like the spectacularly lousy iTunes sales of Coulter's book show that very few people want that crap.

[tandot]

7. well, you can't wipe your ass with I-Tunes

Isn't that why folks buy her books anyway?

[Pale Blue Dot]

9. Not to throw water on this, but,

I not sure if books make the I-tunes chart before they are released. Check back on Tuesday.

[AlCzervik]

10. Stephen Colbert's "I am America and so can you" is the number one audibook on itunes right now.

[Pale Blue Dot]

11. Then I'm happily wrong.

...and, I want Colbert's book.

[eppur_se_muova]

12. Because downloads won't help keep the fireplace lit?

:shrug:

ON EDIT: Thanks for thinking to check this! Even if wingnut sugardaddies think to start buying up podcasts, their cover has been blown, and we have actual numbers to prove it.

PS: Wingnut backers like Scaife et al should be referred to as 'Sugardaddies' as often as possible.:)