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<div id="bodyContent" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Regnery has subsequently left his post as President of Regnery Publishing to become the publisher of <a title="The American Spectator" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Spectator" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">The American Spectator</a> magazine.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regnery_Publishing#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9">[</sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9">10]</sup></a> His books are now published by<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> <a title="Threshold Editions" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_Editions" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Threshold Editions</a>, the conservative <a title="Imprint" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imprint" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">imprint</a> of <a title="CBS" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">CBS</a>-owned <a title="Simon & Schuster" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%26_Schuster" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Simon & Schuster</a> which is run by <a title="Republican Party (United States)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party%28United_States%29" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Republican</a> strategist <a title="Mary Matalin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Matalin" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Mary Matalin</a>.</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regnery_Publishing#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10">[</sup></span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-10">11]</sup></a> He still holds a seat on the Regnery Board of Directors. <a title="Pat Sajak" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Sajak" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Pat Sajak</a> also is a member of the board. Alex Novak, son of political columnist <a title="Robert Novak" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Novak" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Robert Novak</a>, is director of marketing.</font></div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div id="bodyContent"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div id="bodyContent"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Why Milo Yiannopoulos’s canceled book deal isn’t a moral win for conservative publishing</font></div><div id="bodyContent">By Constance Grady@constancegrady Feb 22, 2017, 12:30pm EST</div><div id="bodyContent">SHARE</div><div id="bodyContent"> </div><div id="bodyContent">Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images</div><div id="bodyContent">Earlier this week, Simon & Schuster announced the cancellation of its contract with Milo Yiannopoulos, the infamous internet troll and proud darling of the white supremacists of the self-described alt-right. The announcement followed months of controversy and outrage surrounding nearly anything having to do with Yiannopoulos. It also came on the heels of Yiannopoulos being disinvited from speaking at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, in response to the resurfacing of an old video in which Yiannopoulos defended pedophilia.</div><div id="bodyContent">
</div><div id="bodyContent">Simon & Schuster announced the cancellation quietly, in the trade magazine Publishers Weekly, and it is keeping its editorializing to an absolute minimum. When Vox emailed the publisher to request a comment, a spokesperson repeated word for word the statement printed in Publishers Weekly: “After careful consideration, Simon & Schuster and its Threshold Editions imprint have cancelled publication of Dangerous by Milo Yiannopoulos.”</div><div id="bodyContent">
</div><div id="bodyContent">But just this December, when Simon & Schuster announced that it had acquired Yiannopoulos’s book, it did so with a mild flourish. There was a Hollywood Reporter article, and the trade publication Publisher’s Lunch listed Yiannopoulos at the top of the nonfiction section in its daily list of book deals.</div><div id="bodyContent">
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</div><div id="bodyContent">Milo Yiannopoulos’s book deal represents a troubling shift in conservative publishing</div><div id="bodyContent">It wasn’t the big, splashy rollout that, say, beloved children’s author Philip Pullman received last week when he revealed that he’s writing a follow-up to the His Dark Materials trilogy. It was instead an announcement with the gentlest and most subdued of jazz hands, as if to say: Observe, we are about to publish a book by a political pundit of minor notoriety. Which, for acquiring imprint Threshold Books — Simon & Schuster’s designated home for conservative authors and half the pundits of Fox News — is more or less par for the course.</div><div id="bodyContent">
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</div><div id="bodyContent">But Milo Yiannopoulos is not mildly notorious. He is infamous for his bigotry and for leading vicious harassment campaigns — and the fact that Threshold Books eventually canceled his contract after he said he was okay with pedophilia does not change the fact that the publisher seemed to be okay with everything else he represented. It appears Threshold was perfectly willing, and even eager, to capitalize on the career Yiannopoulos built through hatred and bigotry, right up until the bigotry started to look like it wouldn’t be profitable.</div><div id="bodyContent">
</div><div id="bodyContent">Threshold Books tried to treat Yiannopoulos like any other vaguely famous pundit. That didn’t work out very well.</div><div id="bodyContent">In the days after its December announcement, Threshold Books gave every indication that it planned to treat Yiannopoulos like any other slightly famous author, albeit one whose bubble might well be on the verge of bursting. The imprint had him on what appeared to be an accelerated publication schedule, with his book initially slated to come out this March, despite the fact that Yiannopoulos would later claim, in early February, that he had not yet submitted his final manuscript.</div><div id="bodyContent">
</div><div id="bodyContent">If Yiannopoulos is to be believed, the timeline suggests that Threshold was apparently planning to edit, copy edit, lay out, print, bind, and distribute his book in the span of about a month. (It usually takes at least nine months to shepherd a manuscript from submission through publication.) Often, when a publisher rushes a book, it’s trying to capitalize on someone’s 15 minutes of fame: Better to spend the extra money to get the book out fast, the thinking goes, than risk losing the entire sales base by publishing a year after everyone’s already forgotten about this guy.</div><div id="bodyContent">
</div><div id="bodyContent">Everything about the announcement made it seem as though Threshold believed Yiannopoulos was like any other author in its catalog, someone whose book a conservative audience could be counted on to buy — assuming it could get the book out before a conservative audience forgot who Yiannopoulos was. Certainly nothing about the announcement qualified as awareness that the deal was about to face an enormous swell of outrage and a boycott. But that’s exactly what happened.</div><div id="bodyContent">
</div><div id="bodyContent">Milo Yiannopoulos is a professional internet troll known for harassment and bigotry</div><div id="bodyContent">Shortly after Threshold’s deal with Yiannopoulos was announced, prominent liberal intellectuals announced that they would be boycotting Simon & Schuster. The Chicago Review of Books announced that it would not review any Simon & Schuster books in 2017. Literary superstar Roxane Gay pulled her upcoming book from Simon & Schuster’s list.</div><div id="bodyContent">
</div><div id="bodyContent">And that’s because Yiannopoulos is not a garden-variety conservative author. He is a professional troll who weaponized Twitter as a tool for (racist, sexist, transphobic) harassment so effectively that Twitter was forced to permanently ban him. On his ongoing college speaking tour, he has doxed trans students, putting their lives in danger. He routinely makes hyperbolically offensive statements like “feminism is cancer,” designed to rile up liberals, and then when liberals get angry, he winks and says he didn’t really mean it: He was just being provocative.</div><div id="bodyContent">
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</div><div id="bodyContent">Milo Yiannopoulos: Breitbart’s star provocateur and Trump champion, explained</div><div id="bodyContent">But none of that — not Yiannopoulos’s history of harassment and bigotry, not the widespread outcry and the loss of major authors — was enough for Threshold Books to think twice about acquiring his book in the first place, let alone cancel his contract. It took the resurfacing of a video in which Yiannopoulos explicitly defends pedophilia for Threshold to pull the plug.</div><div id="bodyContent">
</div><div id="bodyContent">The cancellation of Yiannopoulos’s book deal suggests a dangerous acceptance of bigotry from conservative thinkers</div><div id="bodyContent">For many on the left, including writers like Gay, the timing of Threshold’s decision demonstrates that the publisher doesn’t really care about Yiannopoulos’s right to free speech so much as it liked what he was saying before he got to the part about pedophiles — and, more importantly, that it believed its customers would like what he was saying. Threshold thought it could make money from his book, and now it doesn’t think it will. Writes Gay:</div><div id="bodyContent">
</div><div id="bodyContent">When his comments about pedophilia/pederasty came to light, Simon & Schuster realized it would cost them more money to do business with Milo than he could earn for them. They did not finally “do the right thing” and now we know where their threshold, pun intended, lies. They were fine with his racist and xenophobic and sexist ideologies. They were fine with his transphobia, anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. They were fine with how he encourages his followers to harass women and people of color and transgender people online. Let me assure you, as someone who endured a bit of that harassment, it is breathtaking in its scope, intensity, and cruelty but hey, we must protect the freedom of speech.</div><div id="bodyContent">
</div><div id="bodyContent">In other words, Threshold has sent a clear message: Explicit bigotry, harassment, and hatred are tolerable among conservative thinkers. Defense of child molestation is where we draw the line in the sand.</div><div id="bodyContent">
</div><div id="bodyContent">Conservative book publishing is still mired in dog-whistle punditry</div><div id="bodyContent">Yiannopoulos’s canceled contract is a minor victory for the left, but it does not mean conservative book publishing is going to enter a new golden age of sober-minded thought. Book publishing has already found that it can make obscene amounts of money on dog-whistle racism and fearmongering, and it learned as much by doing the same kind of cynical calculations that first led it to strike a book deal with Yiannopoulos: This person is getting attention, this person has an audience, this person is someone who will effectively sell books. It’s not a decision motivated by commitment to free speech or to any particular ideology. It’s a decision motivated by profit margins.</div><div id="bodyContent">
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</div><div id="bodyContent">What Trump aide Monica Crowley's plagiarism scandal says about conservative publishing</div><div id="bodyContent">What conservative book publishing has learned from the Milo Yiannopoulos controversy is that it is unlikely to make significant amounts of money publishing a provocateur who defends pedophilia, and it will definitely lose prestige and cultural capital. But publishers will continue to make money on authors who are just a little more guarded than Yiannopoulos in their bigotry, and they will likely continue to push the envelope on how guarded that bigotry has to be, as long as they think they can make money by doing so.</div><div id="bodyContent">
</div><div id="bodyContent">Meanwhile, Yiannopoulos is planning to seek another publisher for Dangerous and has said he’ll donate 10 percent of the eventual royalties to child abuse charities. (The last time he announced he’d be making a major charitable donation — to white men — it never panned out.)</div><div id="bodyContent">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">no link</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Racist Troll Milo Yiannopoulos Lands a Lucrative Book Deal with Publisher in the U.S., But Company Won't Publish It in the UK</font></font></font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Simon & Schuster thinks America is ready for the racist's autobiography, but it’s not fit for publication in Brexiting UK.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">By Jenny Pierson / AlterNet January 4, 2017</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Milo Yiannopoulos, a Breitbart News editor popular with the white nationalist "alt-right," landed a lucrative book deal with Simon & Schuster’s Threshold Editions imprint last week for an autobiography tentatively titled Dangerous. While there was considerable outcry against the deal in the U.S., the deal is still in place. But the publisher’s UK division told publishing industry magazine Bookseller Tuesday that the book will not be released in the UK.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Yiannopoulos bragged about how rudely he behaved to the “top execs" and was as surprised as anyone when he landed a reportedly large advance of $250,000, according to the Hollywood Reporter, which broke news of the deal:</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“I met with top execs at Simon & Schuster earlier in the year and spent half an hour trying to shock them with lewd jokes and outrageous opinions. I thought they were going to have me escorted from the building—but instead they offered me a wheelbarrow full of money.” </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Yiannopoulos has a long history of hateful behavior. He was banned from Twitter in July after using his account to encourage his supporters (more than 300,000 of them, according to the Washington Post) to harass SNL comedian Leslie Jones, one of the stars of the Ghostbusters remake. Jones had to temporarily quit Twitter after being targeted by an onslaught of racist and sexist tweets. Yiannopoulos rallied his supporters against Twitter’s decision to ban him, saying it was “cowardly.” He is still banned, though he has gained a new platform with the book deal.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Simon & Schuster U.S. has issued a statement, according to the Guardian, that it has not “condoned discrimination or hate speech in any form,” but Leslie Jones has called out the publisher on Twitter for helping to “spread…hate to even more people.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Jones is far from alone in speaking out against the deal.<b> The Chicago Review of Books has said it will refuse to review Simon & Schuster books</b> as a result (though some writers including Kima Jones and Tanya Contois, as well as Vox, have cautioned such a boycott may be too broad, as Simon & Schuster's writers of color would be penalized as well). Writer Danielle Henderson revealed on Twitter that she is prepared to walk out on her existing contract with Simon & Schuster—which is set to publish her memoir Ugly Cry—in protest against Yiannopoulos' deal. And others in the industry, including Emmett Plant, who has produced many "Star Trek" audiobooks for S&S, will follow suit by boycotting S&S or the Threshold Editions imprint specifically.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As the Guardian and Quartz Media pointed out</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">, Threshold has published books by controversial right-wing figures before, including Donald Trump, Rush Limbaugh, Chris Christie, and Glenn Beck. And it's not the only publisher—including the Big 5, independent or somewhe</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">re in between—to cash in on the story of someone who encourages racism or hate (and pay an advance for the privilege; see many examples we’ve covered before). </span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">From a publisher’s perspective, Milo Yiannopoulos may be an attractive character in terms of interest and sales (ignoring the much stronger argument for the moral responsibility of all media formats not to reward those who spread hate and lies with publishing platforms). He says outrageous things that make headlines. He’s just complex enough and tries to keep the public guessing. He’s well-known for being a flamboyant gay man (preying on a misconception that minorities can't also commit identity-politics-related wrongs), and he denies being a part of the so-called alt-right movement (regardless of evidence to the contrary based on his association with Breitbart and public statements). And controversial authors have sold books before, with publishers issuing statements disavowing their alignment with the controversial or hateful ideas of their authors.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The UK publisher's refusal to play along is at least one small victory in the fight against hate. </div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Jenny Pierson is AlterNet's assistant managing editor.</div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Town Hall katie pavlich:men in libya died as help told to stand down 168 mcfarland on Fox said pol decision to to give them adequate security po decision not to rescue them (he ran against he for senate) 169</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">SOCAFRICA told guys not to board plane b/c no authorization (from?) but actually guys in tripoli were told beng ppl on way back and might need medical attan, so missing them bad move; no stand down order.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Lara Logan</b> Dylan Davies threshold book (Simon & S, owned by CBS</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">) not disclosed. Fox had been using him as src, but quit when he asked for $ 175</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">eventually did 90 sec correction; LL put on leave; book not published (LL conferred with Lindsey Graham, why a problem if she had)?</span></p><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">trey gowdy angling for fed judge? how does hearings help that? 177</span></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 15.996px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On the surface, it looks like 60 Minutes was simply conned by a greedy con artist with a vivid imagination - Dylan Davies a.k.a. <a href="http://authors.simonandschuster.biz/Morgan-Jones/414448496" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Morgan Jones</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 15.996px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But is that all there is to it? No. And when the whole scandal is unravelled, it could be huge.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; line-height: 15.996px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ground Zero for the scandal is <a href="http://imprints.simonandschuster.biz/threshold" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Threshold Editions</a>, which published Davies' book <a href="http://books.simonandschuster.biz/Embassy-House/Morgan-Jones/9781476751139" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;"><strong>The Embassy House</strong></a> . <a href="http://imprints.simonandschuster.biz/threshold" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none;">What is Threshold Editions</a>? Nothing less than the home of the <a href="http://imprints.simonandschuster.biz/threshold" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Vast Right Wing Conspiracy</a>.</font></p><blockquote style="margin: 1em 2em; line-height: 15.996px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Threshold Editions is an imprint of Simon & Schuster that specializes in conservative non-fiction. Recent successes include #1 New York Times bestsellers Liberty and Tyranny by<strong>Mark Levin</strong>, An Inconvenient Book by <strong>Glenn Beck</strong>, and The Obama Nation by <strong>Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D.</strong></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Authors include <strong>Glenn Beck, Karl Rove, Jerome R. Corsi, Mark R. Levin, David Kupelian, Lynne Cheney, Arthur B. Laffer, Mary Cheney, Jerry Doyle, Reid Buckley, Brian Jennings, George Melloan, Burton W. Folsom, and Stephen Moore.</strong></font></p></blockquote><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><div id="intro" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 14.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The media is all abuzz about Jerome Corsi's hit job of a book on Obama. But a rising discussion ios the role of Mary Matalin in choosing and defending the book for her Simon & Schuster imprint<a href="http://www.simonsays.com/content/destination.cfm?tab=1&pid=516708" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Threshold Editions</a> as a work of scholarship.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Timothy Noah at Slate has a <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2197432/?from=rss" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">great piece</a> on Matalin and conservative imprints at major publishers. A money quote, literally:</font></p><blockquote style="margin: 1.2em 0px; padding: 20px; line-height: 1.4; background-color: rgb(246, 243, 236); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(226, 226, 225); border-bottom-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(226, 226, 225); border-top-style: solid;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This isn't to say that, through her Threshold imprint, Matalin is subverting Simon & Schuster's pursuit of profit to partisan ends. Quite the contrary. Simon & Schuster and the other <b>big publishing houses have started conservative imprints, at arms' length and with noses held, because they recognize them to be a gold mine. The Obama Nation, the Times reports, will debut on its best-seller list this Sunday at No. 1</b>. But part of the deal, clearly, is that conservative imprints aren't required to adhere to the same standards of truth as the grown-up divisions.</font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Why are these books such a gold mine? Why are these hack jobs debuting at <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/bestseller/index.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">No. 1 on bestseller</a> lists?</font></p></div><div id="body" class="article-body" style="margin: 15px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 14.4px; overflow: hidden;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As others have pointed out here, the conservative machine in this country takes care of its own with think tanks, consultancies, talk shows, and of course, publishing.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As Noah points out,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Random House has <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Crown Publishing</a>, and Penguin has <a href="http://us.penguingroup.com/static/html/aboutus/adult/sentinel.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Sentinel</a>. He could have also mentioned the <a href="http://www.regnery.com/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Regnery group</a>, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">which is a long standing (60+ years) publisher of conservaative books. Heck, they were the ones who first published Buckley, and many years later, Corsi's first book against John Kerry. Regnery is owned by Eagle publishing, which also own the </span><a href="http://www.redstate.com/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Red State</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> website. It also was </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/07/books/07cons.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">sued by 5 of its authors</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> last year, though the suit was dismissed later.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Matalin's imprint is both harder edged and is appearing to be just as fact free, with a book by Bolton and a commitment to publish Rove's memoirs.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> She clearly has access to the worst of the Republicans of the last 10 years or so and is a funnel for money for them.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Regnery is a more old school conservative publishing house, though they have a pretty terrible track record themselves. Crown actually has a wide range of books and a long history of its own, and indeed I have found a number of their history titles to be very well done. They also publish </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Novak and Coulter under their THREE RIVERS PRESS </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">imprint. That imprint also did the paperback for Obama's </span><strong style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;">Audacity of Hope</strong><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, which I am sure Regnery or Matalin would never do. Sentinel is trying to sound tough in 4th place, with a b-list of conservative authors.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In all cases, these books are bought in large numbers by Conservative book clubs, major Republican donors, and the Republican party. From the above article on author lawsuits:</font></p><blockquote style="margin: 1.2em 0px; padding: 20px; line-height: 1.4; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(226, 226, 225); border-bottom-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(226, 226, 225); border-top-style: solid;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(246, 243, 236);">In Regnery’s case, according to the lawsuit, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">the publisher sells books to sister companies, including the Conservative Book Club, which then sells the books to members at discounted prices, "at, below or only marginally above its own cost of publication</span><span style="background-color: rgb(246, 243, 236);">." In the lawsuit, the authors say they receive "little or no royalty" on these sales because their contracts specify that the publisher pays only 10 percent of the amount received by the publisher — as opposed to the cover price — for the book.</span></font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Corsi's new book is moving upward in the charts the <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080813/ts_alt_afp/usvoteobamabook" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">same way</a>:</font></p><blockquote style="margin: 1.2em 0px; padding: 20px; line-height: 1.4; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(226, 226, 225); border-bottom-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(226, 226, 225); border-top-style: solid; background-color: rgb(246, 243, 236);"><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sales have been driven by hefty bulk orders, intense voter interest in Senator Obama and a major marketing campaign featuring interviews with Corsi by well-known conservative talk radio hosts across the country, the paper said.</font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">(smithinnewyork also mentioned this regarding Corsi's book in this <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/13/132621/264/160/567320" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">diary here</a>. )</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now, while it is true some left/progressive books have had bulk sales, it is far more a standard feature of the right, and being on the charts gets them face time on talk shows and the news as noted above. In addition, the bulk sales and star "editors" assure the trade publishers like Simon & Schuster of sales, albeit discounted for quantity, among the faithful. And like with Eagle, the money for those big buys generally come from just a few sources.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What Matalin also gives is access to the A-list of the current administration's view of things, just as they leave the executive branch. She also proviudes a home to those earlier propaganda authors who are disgruntled with Regnery, like Corsi, who got tired of the old school ponzi scheme there. I believe that in the next 2 years, a host of memoirs and books will come out of Threshold that will do one of two things - either focus on books that pump up the "greatness" of the last administration if McCain is elected, or focus on books that are vitriolic, fact free attacks on Obama and the Dems by those same people, who clearly will know what they speak of since "they were there".</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">So, watch for more from Matalin and Threshold in the news. Those deep pocket conservatives will still be there after this election, and shelling out money for bound hit-jobs while they are looking for their new 2012 golden candidate.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p></div>