Ha Ha, O'Reilly's a liar again

[mainer]

(oops sorry to DU -- just duped myself. I didn't think the post went through the first time)


From: Publishers Lunch:


Dude, Where’s Your Calculator?
Bill O’Reilly had some interesting things to say on The Today Show
yesterday (goaded, in part, by Matt Lauer, who doesn’t seem to know a
lot about how sales work himself):

LAUER: Number one on the best seller list. You have bumped
past Al Franken's book. Is there a little ecstasy in that
for you?

Mr. O'REILLY: We've outsold that guy all over the place.
We're running
against Hillary for most copies of non-fiction books sold
this year. That's who we want to beat, and that's why I'm
here talking with you. It's a delightful experience on the
TODAY show as always.

Without resorting to name-calling, those are claims that stand in sharp
contrast to, say, a glance at recent Nielsen Bookscan lists. Unless
"outsold that guy all over the place" actually means "have sold about half
as many units." By those same charts, Clinton has outsold O’Reilly by a
little less than three to one.

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[TacticalPeek]

6. Aw shucks.

Lampooning is bound to be fair use.

[BlueEyedSon]

2. Where can you see those bookscan numbers?

[mainer]

3. bookscan numbers

Bookscan numbers are available only to subscribers, who have to pay for the data. (And believe me, it's a humongous price they charge. Some publishers refuse to pay it.) But Bookscan is now considered the most accurate sales data available, based on actual numbers of books sold rather than bookstore polling.

The New York Times bestseller list, for instance, is based on data from "reporting stores," a select number of booksellers.

[mainer]

4. Re: Publishers Lunch

for those curious about the source, "Publishers Lunch" is an internet newsletter sent out to those in the publishing business.

[K-W]

5. Teh sad thing is

he is topping the best seller list at the moment, though he certainly hasnt outsold anyone overall.

[leetrisck]

7. He keeps trying to act like he's in competition

with Hillary's book - that's the funniest thing I've heard lately - I can only take him in little snippets but usually when I flip him on that's what he is doing - trying to make American public think his book is as popular as Hillary's.