Report: Hillary Clinton Agrees to $8 Million Book Deal. More double standard in action. We just got finished raking Newt Gingrich over the coals for something similar, but the Senate, unlike the House, is not bound by the same ethical guidelines, and even if it were, Ms Clinton would not be subject to them until her Jan. 3 arrival on the Senate floor. For Simon & Schuster to make back this investment, the book would have to sell considerably better than, say, the last Harry Potter volume. Smacks of corporate charity to me.