NP: On Bolton's book and when, very maybe.

[Mark Kohut]

All thinking is provisional, right? Taking in new facts and adjusting
itself.
Admitting one was probably wrong by "knowing too soon", as our great
Nobelist
has written but that doesn't mean "there is no business trying."

With that rationalization for earlier posts out of the way, today I riff
like this:

Just yesterday, I learned that when the manuscript was delivered to the
White House
on December 30 for that official national security, executive privilege,
review the terms were
'within thirty days". And I remind, Bolton's lawyer said the whole review
process was "corrupt'
which is surely a lawyer's pre-emptive defense IF, right?

So, even that smartest lawyer on NBC, whose name is escaping me told Chuck
Todd that 'we do not
know where that review process stands". Truth. Maybe it was completed and
given to Bolton and S & S
already? But I saw one rumor from Team Bolton a bit ago that they thought
it would never be done so they, the WH,
could spring executive privilege traps or sue or enjoin IF S & S tried to
publish.

Today, either way, is the 30th day. In preparation for having the
manuscript---{Aside: any changes in the book should
be fixable, that is cut and the text reworked in a day or less given this
book. if no changes were proffered you can bet that S &S already had it
vetted hard]---S & S chose a publication day by Sunday last:
March 17. seven weeks from yesterday. Exactly right for taking orders, and
printing and shipping all orders across the nation in the usual embargoed
book way.
Actual laydown of all the books, (not throwdown but
in this case, I like it} takes 3.5 to 4 weeks without special speeding up.

So, by tomorrow or the next day, IF they hadn't been able to start printing
even earlier, the presses should be revving.
https://www.imaging.org/Site/IST/Resources/Tutorials/Printing_Press.aspx?WebsiteKey=6d978a6f-475d-46cc-bcf2-7a9e3d5f8f82&hkey=6e050e2f-5726-4290-a635-12c39f67a296

Bolton's book can be printed at thousands of copies an hour [five figures
even] on a modern large offset press. More than one press can be used.
Binding the book roughly matches it but packing and trucking to warehouses
takes longer.
At warehouses, invoices should be ready (but constantly being added to) and
shipping schedules in place. On a normal schedule the
shipping---rollout---starts favoring the farthest parts of these United
States with everything organized as staging areas within UPS (and Fed Ex?)
and other major trucking and then industry distribution centers. Without
this long-perfected organization, books land unequally all over the nation
and everyone (but the lucky early birds) gets mad.

However, sometimes events happen to start books being available in some
places and not others, while the rest are wending their way. Happens.
I, for one, hope Simon & Schuster MAKES that happen, the earlier the
better.

Yesterday's fantasy marketing (and major fantasy historical intervention
for the polity) was to wish the publisher--have to get Team Bolton's
approval-- would get a copy delivered to every Senator by Fed Ex or
messenger as soon as enough books were almost there.  Announce that the new
ON-SALE day is Now. ...one can add a number of early copy receivers-- All
major newspaper editors (and all small papers around the nation too). Give
them a day or two lead for reviews and articles before all major TV and
other media get one too--the
major media figures will find one themselves somewhere before they get
one--all House members too (they talk to the press and Senators and
constituents). All the candidates too. Leading anti-Trump celebrities, etc.

What would it be like?--, great, right?

Watch this space.

PS, yesterday I thought it was almost smart to suggest Nancy Pelosi must
have learned of the probable publishing schedule and today, since it was
all able to be known on Dec 30, it was stupid of me to think this was an
insight. Of course she knew and part of her strategy was to try to have the
trial
start late enough to be helped by the revelation of facts in the book. I
suggest more humbly and obviously.

 One wonders what she knows about the leaking?