NO REALLY, why does her face look like this? I swear, she looks just like a cat. If you gave a cat a buttload of Botox and a shovel-full of makeup. Anyway, you know how Kim Kardashian is the queen of selfies (see above)? She’s so selfie-obsessed that she created a coffee-table book full of selfies. We had seen some of the photos before, but most were not-previously published. The book was called Selfish. And guess what? Even though it got mediocre-to-good reviews (no joke), the book bombed:
Kim Kardashian has 41 million Instagram followers, but RadarOnline.com has learned that her online popularity didn’t translate into huge sales for her book of selfies, Selfish. The book was released to much fanfare and social media promotion in May, and as of mid-July Kardashian was still promoting the book via Instagram posts. But reps for Nielsen Bookscan told Radar exclusively that so far, it has only sold 32,000 copies. That represents just 0.8% of Kardashian’s Instagram fans. (*Nielsen BookScan’s U.S. Consumer Market Panel currently covers approximately 85% of the print book market and continues to grow.)
What’s more, the book is a critical flop online. Sitting at 1,607 in books, it’s ranked only 2.5 stars after 661 customer reviews. And those reviews have been scathing.
“A poor tree died for this!” Tracy Young wrote. User Angela called it a “waste of money!”
At least, however, it didn’t sell as badly as Kendall and Kylie Jenner’s sic-fi novel, Rebels: City of Indra. As Radar reported, that book sold just 13,000 copies in its first few months on sale. In comparison, Lauren Conrad‘s novel L.A. Candy reportedly sold 500,000 copies in its first year.
The reason why Lauren Conrad’s books sell is because LC has invested in ghostwriters who know what they’re doing. The Kardashian-Jenner clan just sort of half-asses most of their side projects. As for Kim’s sad little sales record… to be fair to her (I KNOW), it was a coffee-table book, not a novel or something like that. I don’t think anyone in publishing really expected Selfish to fly off the shelves. That being said, they probably expected Selfish to sell better than it did. I wonder why no one really cared? Is it because we can see Kim’s self-exploitative selfies for free every day?
Here are some photos of Kim at the airport on Monday. YAY BUTT SHOTS!!! How many pairs of Spanx do you think she’s wearing here?
Photos courtesy of Instagram, Fame/Flynet.
When I think “coffee table book” I think of classy subject matter, like art, nature, even high fashion. Who would want pictures of this skank on their coffee table?
The International Skanks Association?
….on the table in their pleather-upholstered lobby.
Excellent stuff ladies. Her face looks incredibly weird in the first photo and the shape and eyes are reminiscent of the “Greys” that are alleged to be visiting us from elsewhere in the cosmos. I suppose if the Kardashians were aliens it would explain a lot….
Haha. I love that it’s a failure even more than I should. I don’t think she is attractive at all anymore. That a@@ is huge and gross looking.
You raise an excellent point. I think this klan drinks hand-filtered water infused with delusion salts. Or they own the world’s largest fun mirror.
Is her rear end carrying the baby?
The internet content is free (apart from ISP fees of course). People will look and point and follow for free – but they won’t pay $$ for these people. Thank God.
Exactly, Pandy. The fact that the publishers thought they could move her pictures to a different medium that wasn’t free and expected people to buy it is silly.
Wait, let me get this straight. So, the public isn’t interested in a book of photos featuring a one-dimensional, vapid, boring, plastic narcissistic who has contributed nothing redeeming to society except for mugging for the camera? Holy crap, I am shocked….Oh wait, no, I’m not….
She’s lost any and all attractiveness she once had. She wears so many layers of spanx to keep her ass from dragging around her ankles. I can’t wait for this to happen to Kylie as well.
People who buy table books are not the same people who care about Kardashians.
You mean to tell me that her millions of followers are not the type of people who purchase books? I for one am shocked, shocked I tell ya!
Lmao so very true.
Hope in humanity restored (at least a tiny bit).
Ikr?!
Of those 41 million, some of them have to follow her just to laugh at her Kimnanigans, so I doubt they’d ever spend actual money on her.
And not everyone lives in the US. I mean, this book was not published in every single country in the world.
Of those 41 million, half is fake accounts just to drive their followers number up.
@Sam- LOL, thank you!
I flipped through her book at bookstore and it’s honestly not as bad as I expected, it was light hearted and kind of fun. If the book had been about half the price I’m sure it would have sold a lot more copies
It was reported that it was $10 the day after being published. (that’s not unusual when the pre-sales are low or non-existent). I don’t think price was the problem.
Probably her fans only read picture books.
I thought it was a picture book?
Most of them probably haven’t learned to actually read one yet.
I for one am looking forward to seeing “Selfish” on the shelves of the local Dollar Tree soon!
32,000 is a lot of books. Much more than most authors ever sell.
But Kim isn’t an unknown, she a celebrity with a huge fan base – or so they say- so it’s not very fair to compare with someone who may have only written a book or two. Well known authors sell big numbers all the time and even most celebs hit the best seller list.
This isn’t a celebrity tell-all memoir designed to move copies. It’s a coffee table book designed to create buzz for Kim. It was never supposed to be a bestseller. 32k is a lot.
I hate to sound like I’m defending Kim, but isn’t this the sort of thing that she was hoping would be on the coffee table in designer waiting rooms and high end hair salons?
OG: I am sure that she and Ye are pleased with the book. The reviews were very surprisingly good, and I stand by saying 32k is a lot of books, especially from an art-house publisher like Rizzoli.
I don’t think people realize how few copies most books sell, but tens of thousands of copies is a lot. It’s number one in two Amazon markets right now. By the standards of most art & photography books, it’s a big seller.
Whoa, Rizzoli is *not* a “minor publisher,” it’s one of the biggest art publishers in the world. It’s like Taschen and Rizzoli, that’s who publishes art books/coffee table books/museum catalogs. For the kind of book she’s selling, Kim Kardashian is with a widely recognizable brand. That’s maybe the problem; the kind of people who would normally buy Rizzoli tomes are not interested in the likes of Kim Kardashian. Rizzoli probably thought this would bring them out of the esoteric land of art publishing, but they misjudged the market for a Kim Kardashian selfie book when she’s posting that sh-t for free on Instagram every day.
I’m gonna guess that at least 31,999 of those copies were bought for as birthday or Christmas gag gifts.
@ Beverly
Going by BookScan numbers for 2014, you’re right in that art books don’t sell as much as fiction books, but just looking at Rizzoli and Taschen (another art book publisher comparable to Rizzoli), they’re regularly putting out books that sell in the mid-six figure range. See my points below. Kim K’s book won’t come close to outselling every other Rizzoli release this year, although it looks like she’s outselling Chloe Sevigny’s book.
That all depends on how much her advance was. If she got a $15,000 advance, then yeah. She did fine. But if it was half a mil, someone in the publishing house is getting fye-yerd!!
I would guess that she was not paid much and did it for the (ummmmmm) art of it, as with the “break the internet” Paper magazine cover. She does that pretty frequently – poses for covers of small magazines for free, basically for the publicity. Rizzoli is an art-book publisher without deep coffers. I would guess that Kim’s book is one of their big sellers for the year.
Look, Beverly, I get that you’re a Kim K fan, but again, Rizzoli is not a rinky-dink company. It’s part of a major worldwide publishing house, RCS. They’re a publicly traded company worth over $1.5B. They have very deep coffers. Deep enough, that this flop book, and yes, it is a flop given Kim Kardashian’s high profile, won’t register on their year-end P&L statements. They can absorb the hit because they’ll make it up elsewhere.
A best seller will sell around 250,000 copies (minimum) in its first year (number pulled from BookScan), and it takes sales of about 20,000/month to register on the NYT Best Seller list (in any category, not just fiction). Selfie isn’t going to come close to those numbers. Sorry. You can still like Kim Kardashian, though. No one is taking that away from you.
Kim does anything for free?!? Be still, my beating heart hahahahahaha …
32,000 is a lot for a self published book not for somebody with a huge following like Kim.
300 copies is a lot for a self-published author. I’m talking about authors published by major publishers. 32k books sold is a lot. Many many many books, even by major authors, do not sell more than 10k in their lifetimes.
Kramer on Seinfeld had a coffee table book too! Wonder how many of the 32000 the Ks brought themselves to give out as gifts and I’m sure their friends also did. But for a person with millions of followers that would be a failed compared to you or me selling a book without a fan base.
Her fan base isn’t much for books, and her book isn’t appealing to people who read. 32k is a lot of books to sell in a short span of time, especially from a fairly minor publisher.
You know the Kartrashians bought most of them. Just like they were seen buying multiple copies of that awful issue of Vogue.
So pretentious. They must have been desperate to make it look like the Kim K issue was selling like hotcakes.
When it comes to print they fail everytime, lookskke they found the landscape they could not conquer. Kylie and Kendall’s book flopped too.
As above commenters have pointed out, 32,000 is a nice number for an unknown author who received a small advance. But with Kim and the Kardashians in general, their power as spokespeople is in the idea that you’re directly reaching their millions of social media followers. For Kim’s book to sell such a comparitively small amount disproves the worth of all of those followers
32000 would be HUGE for an unknown author, and it’s a respectable number for just about any established author (excepting people like Stephen King etc). Her followers aren’t the book buying type. This is a book from a small publisher, not a big memoir from Penguin. It was designed to create buzz for Kim and sell a lot more copies than Rizzoli’s books probably usually sell. It’s #1 in two Amazon sub-markets right now. It’s more like the Paper magazine shoot, which was unpaid but created publicity dividends.
Um, publicity dividends? As opposed to the other selfies and Instagram shots she publishes?
Publicity means nothing if it doesn’t draw in revenue to another project.
Madonna’s first book, Sex, sold 1,400,000 copies in the first six months.
Her second, The Girlie Show, sold 140,000 copies.
Celeb book figures from the 1990s, but…..I think the numbers support Bridget’s comment.
@ Beverly: I don’t think she’s getting publicity dividends for the book. The book is considered a flop given her presumed huge following, so it’s proving the point that her followers are there to watch her humiliate herself, not to actually admire her. With the numbers falling for their show and their inability to land a deal for their first baby, I think it just proves that they have to do something much more interesting to get people to buy.
Wow, Beverly is very dedicated to her pro-Kim stance.
Anyhoo, this isn’t like it was a small, limited run of 32K. The book was a flop, and it just goes to show that Instagram and Twitter followers don’t correlate into real world sales. A lot of celebrities fall into that trap – remember when Heidi Montag was shocked when her album flopped, because her Twitter followers assured her they would buy a copy?
Those book sales were tailored around the number of followers on different social media sites she has. Unlike her other work she went to great lengths to promote this one, 32,000 is horrible in that regard.
For a famous name and a picture book with no mature subject (she wasn’t speaking about global warming or etc.) that’s putting the publishing company in the red. They’d never give her a contract to sell less than 100,000 copies of books.
Sorry, but y’all have no idea how few copies most books sell, and that’s not how publishing contracts work, especially with a smaller, artsy publishing imprint like Rizzoli. There’s no way they would expect an “art” book to sell 100,000 copies. Even established authors with fanbases that actually give a shit about books often fall far short of 32,000 copies sold all-time. She sold that many in a matter of months, and it’s still topping several Amazon sub-categories. I am positive that this is one of Rizzoli’s big sellers for the year.
Rizzoli isn’t small by any stretch of the imagination, they’re the name when it comes to the type of book Kim was trying to sell: coffee table books.
32,000 for the amount she was likely paid plus them covering her expense and travel for the sake of promotion make this particular venture a flop.
Yeah normal books don’t always sell well, but when it comes to celebrities the expectation is higher. That’s like saying a big name celebrity selling 32,000 albums is great because most average folks without a studio behind them wouldn’t be able to do it.
Yeah, that’s a good number for a coffeetable book. Nowadays, publishers are happy for sales of 5,000. The failure is probably because of what they had to pay her.
Exactly! Except I doubt she was paid much for it. She did this for the publicity/cred, like the Paper magazine shoot.
I can’t even handle the complete lack of grasp you people have on publishing. Even “nowadays” best sellers in a weak month (usually the beginning of the year, when all retail is down because of post-holiday credit card blues) sell around 20,000 copies. In a stronger retail period, like summer, you’d have to sell 60-70K per month to qualify as a best seller. Sales of 5,000 make no one happy. That would be a significant loss for a publisher. A “healthy” book sells around 8-10K copies/month, with a best seller doing 2x or 3x that. And according to BookScan, which isn’t a complete metric, but it does weight heavily bookstore sales, which is where an art book is most likely to move copies, coffee table books regularly sell over 100,000 copies/year, with the best sellers in the mid-six figure range.
Actors I like make bad movies all the time, but I still like those actors, and I’ll still watch the movies, even though I know they’re bad. It’s okay if your fave doesn’t ace every test.
Funny it did not sell! Every book written by a reality star hits the NY Times best selling list. Hopefully this is the beginning of the end for the KrapTrashian clan.
I’m still side eyeing that number. This is the family that was seen buying stacks and stacks of Kummy Kakes’ vogue cover. 32,000 worth, no of course not. But I wouldn’t be surprised if the number was higher than 100.
…And Kim’s in Jocelyn Wildenstein territory now.
I’m going to go with a horse-cat hybrid.
…with a side of camel.
I see more horse than cat. It’s the vast expanse of flesh between her eyes and mouth, it’s just a vacuum of where a human face should be.
I assume in person her face isn’t two miles long. Maybe. She must be terrifying in person actually.
Definitely camel. It’s all I see when I look at her face now.
From the front, her upper lip is too long and she has no lower jaw. From the side she looks even more bizarre! She needs a side view mirror. Plus it would help her back up that ass.
I see an alien face.
Thank you all for going there! I saw an old episode of their show the other day and it’s always alarming to see how pretty Kim used to be vs what ahe thinks looks good now. Her hair needs some body.
This reminds me of Kramer (Seinfeld) who wanted to make a coffee table book about coffee tables.
I come from a culture with no coffee table books, it seems. They’re just not popular here. How many of those are we supposed to own, really, and are they all actually kept on coffee tables? 😀
Actually the joke was that he wanted to make a coffee table book that was a coffee table–ie had legs. I worked in the field and had to hear that joke from pretty much everyone. As soon as the Internet and digital photography came along it was all over because buyers–anyone thirsty for gorgeous color images–could get them just about anywhere for free.
She’s starting to look like one of the grey aliens from the X-Files.
If only there were a mother ship to come take her away.
The a$$ is mesmerizing!
The scary thing about that top picture is that she thinks it looks good! She has f’d up her face so bad. She looks like a damn alien. Wtf!
Truly- the portion of her face below her nose does NOT look human anymore.
Wtf do you do to yourself to cause that?? Does a plastic surgeon build up your upper lip area??
Seriously- I need an explanation. She looks made out of putty.
The bottom half of her face is starting look rather rubbery especially her mouth.
my theory is that it’s because her nose is now too “short” for her face. the space between her nose and upper lip is too big for the rest of her face due to the work she’s had done on her nose. you can really see it from her profile pics, too.
Don’t insult cats!
Totally my first thought. She looks like a camel more so than Jay-Z. At least he was born that way. She forcibly turned herself into a grumpy animal.
god, her face just gets weirder and more alien-like every time I see it.
*shudders*
ETA: Ok I wrote that before I saw all the other comments saying the same thing…glad it’s not just me!
Dear Kaiser-
Please stop comparing us to this alien-like creature.
Thank You.
Sincerely,
-Every Cat in The World
Haha, for real! Leave the kittyfolk alone and stop comparing them to this travesty of pancake makeup and hideous plastic surgery!
I think she needs to grow fur to qualify as looking properly catlike. Somebody should try that with photoshop to see if it improves the look. What fur colors might look best? Shorthair or longhair?
Don’t forget to add whiskers and delete the eyelashes. Replace the hair on her head as well. She’ll need different ears, I guess.
Why would anyone wear a leather jacket in August?!?! I don’t know what the temperature feels like in LA these days, but I can’t imagine wearing long sleeves right now much less a leather jacket!! (I live in Texas…..it’s not like she’s at the North Pole)
Ok, nobody bought her idiotic, self-absorbed book, that is a step in the right direction. Now if these morons stop asking for her autograph we will be making some real progress
AND stop watching the Kartrashian shows–all of them!!!
I would say it’s ridiculous that she’s self centered enough to think a book of her selfies would actually interest people, but since she’s made millions off doing just that I can’t say sh*t, ugh.
Her butt…how in the hell is she able to move or use the toilet with that thing!? It’s so big, I honestly don’t understand how she could even fit it on a toilet seat, and what about having sex doggy style? You’d have to be very well endowed to make it past that ass!
Jess, I don’t know if I should laugh or cry. The toilet……. doggy style…… Girl you made my day!!!
It is like she has a built-in, elevated toilet seat.
I think it might interfere with certain hygienic maneuvers. That can be a problem with people who have such size naturally, especially if they also have mobility problems. But then I always wonder how she gets out of her tight clothing fast enough to do some other vital things in the bathroom also. Her life is so unappealing.
This is NOT nice but…..every time I see her diaper butt, all I can think of is how it must be STANKY. For real. Tight sweaty clothes over many layers of spanx, having to go WAY up in there to wipe, and then…ewwwwww! Just gross. Whenever I see her greasy butt all I can think of is “She must smell like butt butter.” Gross.
OMG she totally looks like an alien in that top picture and no effin’ way that butt is real. It should have its own zip code. The enormity of it is mind boggling.
Why would anyone pay for a book of selfies when Kimbo posts them endlessly online for free?
That is not surprising. Why would anyone buy this book when they could just see her Instagram for free? The publishers should be ashamed for publishing it to begin with.
PLUS the internet provides the added bonus of being able to ‘x’ out really quick as opposed to having a giant printed book sitting round your house and trying to explain to guests that you only flick through it to judge.
This says a lot about her “fanbase”. Does she have MILLIONS of fans? I doubt. Folks(mostly men) fawn over the Klan thanks to their a$$tastic social media. I think many draw the line(thankfully) at buying a book of selfies. Good.
It says people have some sense. Kim posts photos all the time. Why buy a book when can see the same photos for free?
True. And it’s silly for media to quote her number of followers as if those are real people. They’re bought. They’re spam accounts. They’re bots.
Not all of them, but yeah, a good number are bots, and bots don’t buy books. Neither do genuine Kardashian fans.
Check out the photo where she is head on with her hand sort of waving. If you zoom in on her stomach, the area around her belly button is kind of concave like a crater. Is this normal, or is this her pregnancy prosthesis caving in?
Interesting.
Personally, I don’t think she’s pregnant. I think that’s why she’s always wearing coats and jackets.
Agreed. Fake, fake, surrogate having fake. Her time is sooooooo up.
*toasts with a glass of orange juice*
I can’t believe 30,000 fools bought it.
Between the copies Kimmode, Khlozilla, The Slow One, Kendull, The Pathetic One, Kanye, PMK and Catilyn bought, I could see 30,000 being sold.
Ummm, who’s The Slow One and who’s The Pathetic One? By process of elimination, there’s only Kylie and Kourtney left.
The Slow One = Kourtney
The Pathetic One = Kylie.
Just guessing.
Mintessence- the guy at DListed keeps calling Kourtney The Slow One, I assume because she talks more slowly? So guess Kylie is stuck with the other unfortunately accurate name…
Her face looks sweaty.
I’m thrilled if this information is actually true, but I’m unsure whether or not to trust Radar as a source. This woman had no business putting out a book featuring hundreds of pages of pictures of herself. She is not a model or an artist. I find it interesting how now that her career is beginning to wane, she is trying to sell herself as some makeup mastermind despite the fact that her makeup artist is the person who deserves all of the credit and she contributes nothing.
The Kardashians have contributed nothing valuable to society and are helping to normalize a level of superficiality that borders on a certifiable psychiatric issue. It is not normal to base your life around the perfect selfie, or to spend copious amounts of time in a mirror and sadly, young people see these people and somehow find them inspiring and want to emulate them and their behavior.
41 million idiots.
41 million idiots.
Since only truth will suffice, you had to post it twice! Lol!
/agreed
Sorry but my CAT wants to point out that her face is a furry chef d’oeuvre, and she does not even remotely look like a Kardashian alien.
Hahaha. My cat concurs! He’s MUCH better looking than this woman.
My cat is too busy licking himself to comment, but I’m sure he would agree once he has time to think about it.
Kendall and Kylie couldn’t even discuss what the plot of the book was about.
The problem with Kim is she’s famous but only because everybody hates her. So her clothing line, book, singing career, etc are all failures because she really has no fans – no one is willing to spend their money on her. We just look at her photos and read about her because she’s such a mess.
Everytime they try to do something involving print it backfires on them.
The Vogue sales were bad and Kendall and Kylie’s ghost-written book flopped too.
Apparently their fans either don’t read or know the Kardashians are as intelligent as a used sponge. I’m guessing this will be the last venture in this area, nude pics and sex tapes it is!
Don’t forget about Kris’ cookbook with all the stolen recipes! I think there was even one from her “great friend” Nicole Brown Simpson. Bottom-of -the -barrel sludge from PMK. No wonder no one bought it.
I can’t stop starring at her face…Im trying to figure out what she did THIS time or if it’s just make up making her look so strange. Those spider lashes are just grotesque. And now we get the close up of her ever-growing butt and now Im at a loss for words. I think all of the K klan is in some kind of competition to see who can buy the biggest and fakest butt.
I just can’t wait to see these ppl in 10 yrs or so to see what all this redistributing of their fat does in the long term. Im hoping they won’t be on TV or the news any more but I wouldn’t mind a “where are they now” show just to catch up on her butt and face.
I cannot imagine what her backside will look like in even five years. She looks so out of proportion and lumpy right now.
It didn’t sell because as much fun as it is to talk about them… and gossip about their lives, people are really starting to not care anymore. It’s a circus. The Kardashians are losing steam. The Jenner girls are the up and coming ones. But Kim, Kris, Kourtney, and Khloe… it’s just not happening as much.
I think you might be right. The Kardashian women stories have all been pretty much mined (marriage, divorce, marriage again, baby, baby, baby, baby, drug addiction, alcohol addiction, cheating – all reality train wreck bases covered), but the Jenner girls have so much mess yet to come.
It’s as if we’ve all seen the original (k-klan) movie, and now we are seeing heavy publicity for the (Jenner) sequel.
Thisity, this, this, THIS!
Why does she vaguely look like nenee from Real Housewives ?
She looks like a cat. Not a desirable feature in a human, IMO.
Also, why would you want to watch her tutorial when she had to go to someone else to get “the look”? Am I missing something?
No wonder she said in an interview the coffee table book was Kanye’s idea…lol she didn’t want to take the credit for the poor sales. How could anyone think that book would make money? You can see pics of her online for free…and a sex tape for God’s sake…and playboy pics…and a million other nude photos. Contouring with make-up has gotten way out of control. Only pros should do it…and only for red carpet events. Please girls do NOT contour your make-up like Kim has done…you will look insane and it will be very noticeable in the sunlight !
In 92, amid alot of hype, Madonna put out a book, Sex, and it sold 150,000 first day.
Maybe Kim thought she could obtain such heights in the literary world. LMAO! She got spanked.
Btw, kylie and kendall have a sci-fi book?! Is it a coloring book?
My boyfriend bought me the Madonna book. It was interesting how many people were in shock. When the people I work with (shocked ones) found out I had it, guess who wanted to see it. Madonna did a lot of crazy things, but she had talent and never overexposed herself on a daily basis. That’s the problem Kim faces, no talent and you can see her naked anywhere on the net. She wasn’t smart enough to keep them wanting more and has a little sister ready to dethrone her beginning next week when she turns 18.
You can read a sample of the Jenner girls’ ghostwritten book on Amazon, along with reviews. Too bad they didn’t just write it themselves (they could use the practice with words) and kept it inside the family as a fun ongoing private project for the two of them, assuming they’re telling the truth at all about its origins. But no, Demon Mother has to try to extract money from everything. I even read toothpaste boxes, but I wasn’t inspired to read more after the sample. I suspect it was based on some offhand remarks made by the girls and the ghostwriter tried to make something out of it, since the girls didn’t seem able to discuss it when asked. They might not have even read it.
I think that’s the perfect comparison for Beverly (who posted many times above) to understand that the book was a flop. This was a book from a celeb with supposedly as many followers as Madonna, but they don’t care for her nearly as much.
BOOM! This!
It’s a joke! The Emperor has no clothes….(how apt!)
As I said below, the new freakshow is Kylie. As sad as it is, it’s true. Kim has finally reached her “sell by” date. *Kanye shrug*
Bye girl!
I think that 41 million followers is greatly exaggerated . The only person being fooled by that number are the media and the companies who buy whatever b.s. this sicko family puts out. I am not at all surprised her book didn’t sell…why should it when you can see all those pictures for free scattered all over the internet.
She probably “bought” some of those followers. Also, a lot of people follow Kim just for laughs, not real fans of hers. The true amount of actual fans she has that would pay money for her selfies are probably very few. This family is all smoke and mirrors. Kim is panicking because Kylie now has taken the lead in that family. There is nothing left for Kim to do…we’ve seen it all…over and over again…even this pregnancy is not getting much attention.
Look at the bump in IGs she posted last week compared to the photos above:
https://instagram.com/p/5vRlAIOS6d/
https://instagram.com/p/5qsGn5uS42/
I don’t care if she’s carrying the baby or a surrogate is but it seems fishy and the lengths she seems to be going to, if she’s not carrying it, are crazy!
If that a** was on anyone but a Kardashian, the person would be told they are overweight and unhealthy. The media has made this a** famous. Nobody I know wants their derriere to look like that. What an embarrassment that these people seem to be what many put on a pedestal. I think many of their followers on twitter are not real people. It doesn’t translate to their clothing sales or ‘book’ sales. But they are wealthy it would seem by appearances. I personally think Kanye spends it faster than he makes it and is probably in debt to his eyeballs like the rest of them.
It’s not so much her face / make up but the fact that the picture is photoshopped to the max! No skin texture left whatsoever. She looks like a plastic doll.
She looks so effing weird – her face is so sharp and pointed into a barely there chin and jaw. Sooner or later her whole face is going to disappear into a black hole from tightening it so much… hey maybe that would be a good thing lol
She’s looking very Zoolander in the first picture.
I have no idea how to really interpret the sales figures, although hardcopy books are mostly not selling as well today as in less electronic times. Is it available in electronic form such as Kindle? That would be loads cheaper for the potential buyers and would help get past the price barrier the hardcopy version has. If her diehard fans are very young, not all of them have the money to spend on such things. I imagine books would be lower priority than clothes and makeup in their budgets.
But sometimes authors do buy up enough books to get on the best seller list for a month, to jump start sales (gets people interested). Between Demon Mother’s machinations and Kanye’s delusions, it’s conceivable that they might have bought quite a few more than that especially if sales still were not jumping. They could buy them at cost or at a deep discount, and deduct it as a business expense. So without a real breakdown of how many sold where and to whom, who knows? Anecdotal evidence from people who work in bookstores might be useful. How many did they get in stock and how well have they sold? Who seems to be buying them?
It does seem like the kind of book people might flip through at a bookstore, laugh at, and move on unless they were diehard Kim fans. She just isn’t that compelling a subject and if you have an uncontrollable urge to see her kazillion selfies, you can find enough online for free. Can you look through the book a little on Amazon and other online sellers? If not, that makes it even less likely that people would buy it, although the true believers might sight unseen.
But how many diehard fans does she really have? Besides bought followers- people might follow someone to laugh at them. I think a significant percentage of their TV audience is the same – they tune in to laugh at these silly people, and to remind themselves that their own families are at least not THAT bad. That’s why their ratings keep slipping, they don’t have enough diehard fans to keep it up and the others are getting tired of them. But high follower counts (like TV ratings) allows them to charge more for their postings about products since advertisers are interested in getting as many eyeballs seeing their name even in passing. Only a small percentage are expected to buy the product on that basis, so the more eyeballs the better – doesn’t matter whether they like Kim or not. Plus in the K Klan’s case, there is the added bonus of all the laughers and critics elsewhere on the net who complain about their silly recommendations of product they typically don’t use. Gets more eyeballs, so that’s fine also.
Oh, my, God. Becky, look at her butt / It is so big, she looks like / One of those rap guys’ girlfriends. / But, ya know, who understands those rap guys?
Oops, meant to post here.
The Amazon reviews are hysterical. Here are a couple..
812 of 883 people found the following review helpful
A Spine-Chilling Work of Unrelenting Horror
I had a choice between this and a monkey’s paw. I chose the monkey’s paw. They still made me take this book. I tried to burn it, but the match turned blue and went out. I threw it in a lake, and all the fish died. When I drove home, I found it in the back seat. I’m pretty sure that in seven days Kim is going to crawl out of this book and tell me about her new line of clutch bags. I have a very old, sickly neighbour; I’m going to let him read it and see if the curse transfers to him. Man, I hope so.
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Kim Kardashian cannot sell fish
By GuppyLover on May 20, 2015
Format: Hardcover
I bought this book because I wanted to go into the tropical fish business. I really thought this would be an instructional guide to Sell Fish. The woman with the trout face really threw me off. Apparently this book is actually about selling melons as I can now see from the cover photo. Buyer beware.
It’s interesting to me, watching her face morph as Kim continues to monkey around with it. She’d reached a point where her face looked balanced, let’s say an optimally surgically enhanced beauty. Then about 2, almost 3 years ago maybe, she did her nose again. That was when she went too far and now she looks like an alien.
yup
Best comment!
She’s looking more and more like Madam the puppet all the time.
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Somehow I don’t think that’s what she was going for.
Ahhhhhhhhh! *slaps leg*
I’ll admit I spent my morning reading ALL, yes ALL of the Amazon reviews of “Sell Fish”…and I had me some major belly laughs!
I would pay 10 times the cost of Kim’s “book” to have a Hardcover copy of all those “reviews”.
What a fun way to start the day…learning for sure what I’ve always suspected.. that the smoke and mirrors of their popularity are just that…..smoke and mirrors.
You done Kim. Kylie is the new freakshow now.
You see? Even the most useless person can have a higher purpose, even if only to bring out the creativity of others…. ☺️
(First time genuine emoticon font user here. Before I thought that keyboard set was just an aggravating bump to get past when my phone accidentally skips to a Russian or Greek keyboard and I need to get back to English.)
LOL!
It really WAS a hoot! There are some very talented, creative reviewers of “Selfish” on Amazon who were not only funny, but spot on.
Somebody get on getting the rights to those and write a book called, “The Truth Of Selfishness” or something funnier. (I just read ’em, I don’t write ’em…lol!)
Her face is looking really weird, and I’m really glad her book flopped.
This family doesn’t care about the quality of anything they do- it’s all about getting the deal and then who cares what the final product is? What’s sad is there are great writers and artists out there who are not being given book deals while these idiots are.
It failed, I told you so
The first picture is so scary. When you focus on the eyes it’s not that bad, but then the mouth area … I just can’t …
Who’da thunk?!?
With 42 million followers you should have at least sold 1 million books! I bet she bought most of her books
I truly believe most, if not all, of her fans , are financially strapped. Having to choose between bus fare to minimum wage job, and a coffee table book is difficult.
Its sad, really.