New York Times: “At the time, it seemed like a guaranteed best seller… Crown, an imprint of Penguin Random House, beat out competitors with an offer of more than $5 million. It was a gamble on an author whose previous memoir sold fewer than 4,000 hardcover copies. And it backfired spectacularly.”
Cuomo’s Book Became a Publisher’s Worst Nightmare
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