Take a gander, sometime, at the bestsellers' list. This is one for nonfiction hardcover books.
On some books, you will see a little dagger symbol: † That indicates that some booksellers who report for the list received bulk orders of that book.
It is almost always right-wing screeds. In this list, it's books by Sean Hannity and Sarah Saunders; two people who are among the most notorious peddlers of Trumpist propaganda out there.
Contrast that with books that didn't need bulk orders to make the list: Melania and Me, Too Much and Never Enough, Disloyal, Hoax, Compromised and Donald Trump v. the United States; all books that did not require bulk sales to trolls in order to make the list.
When you see that a conservative is being lauded for writing a best-seller, other than Bill O'Reilly's histories or Chris Wallace's book on the dropping of the atomic bombs, you can be pretty sure that the only way that they made the best-sellers' list was by cheating.
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Scientology does that with Hubbard's books...they must have warehouses full of them.
ReplyDeleteI worked a few years at a console where you could read when nothing was happening, which was a lot of the time. The guy next to me spent the time reading Battlefield Earth over and over again. For years.
Wingnut welfare. Regnery Publishing probably has half its gross from bulk orders.
ReplyDelete-Doug in Sugar Pine
Or, that, like many liberal writers, someone is buying the books as a method of payment for a favor or other thing done that cannot otherwise be legally compensated, often by someone in a government job.
ReplyDeleteIts a thing rich people do for folks in government. Both side do it, the Dems somewhat more than the Repubs but it is wrong either way.