Trump Announces $230 Picture Book to Fleece Dumbasses in Time for Christmas

[Celerity]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-announces-dollar230-picture-book-to-fleece-dumbasses-in-time-for-christmas





https://www.axios.com/trump-book-coffee-table-29bcec81-74d3-4eef-975d-c529002bdf29.html

[no_hypocrisy]

1. It'll be on the pile of $4.99 Barnes & Noble sale books by Christmas.

[Bristlecone]

7. I expect it in the Dollar Tree bin not too far behind that.

Next to the DVD piles.

[TwilightZone]

9. Agreed.

[Kittycatkat]

23. do Trumpers even buy books?

[canetoad]

2. This is not a joke

Is it?

[applegrove]

3. 5% of 350 million Americans at $200 makes for a profit of $3.5 Billlion

Grifters gotta grift.

[TwilightZone]

8. He's not going to sign 17 million copies.

Nor will it sell anywhere near that many. I would surprised if he sells 1,000 signed versions.

These things sell a few thousand copies total (mostly to GOP groups who give them out free) and then they disappear.

[OAITW r.2.0]

12. I think 17mm is probably the market cap on target rubes.

Out of that, maybe 1MM invest in whatever Trump sells. Another 20% will invest with the right emotional pitch.

[PJMcK]

35. The price paid is not all profit

A book like this probably pays, at most, 10% in royalties. The publisher has to pay all the costs of the book: paper, printing, editorial, packaging, distribution, etc. Your math is way off.

Most of this publication will be bought in bulk by PACs and distributed for free. The idiots, of course, will pay for it, too.

As for the signed copies, the publisher will probably get a machine to autograph the books. One can’t expect Trump to do any actual work, you know.

[applegrove]

38. I charged only $200 per book. The amount over $200 is what I assumed

would be the cost at $30 per book.

[jls4561]

4. Can't wait to see the Pete Souza follow up.

Edit: spelling.

[Bristlecone]

5. Jeezus H does he fleece them but good. What a complete con

[Maru Kitteh]

6. OMG, the Photoshop on the cover is LUDICROUS

One tiny arm - one REALLLLLLY LONG one

4.7 feet of torso and 19 inch legs.

[applegrove]

11. People are going to go without to get it.

[Maru Kitteh]

15. Every dollar those miserable rubes send him is one less going

to a local Q-anon city council candidate.

[applegrove]

18. True.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

31. Now that you mention it,

yes there is a big difference in arm length.

Looks like they took quite a bit of weight off of him, also.

[Enter stage left]

10. In 1557 Thomas Tusser wrote a poem called "Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry"...

In which it said, "A fool and his Money are soon parted"

Let's see how many fools there are before Xmas. ("Xmas" done on purpose, lets start another war on Xmas)

[chowder66]

13. Probably a pop-up book with a giant orange hand held out to collect $$. nt

[Celerity]

22. a mushroom pop-up

[chowder66]

29. LOL and gross. nt

[Raven]

14. I assume he included pictures of the Capitol riot as one of the high points of

his presidency.

[BlueIdaho]

16. Is this TFG admitting he is no longer President?

The copy sure reads like that.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

32. Well, he is still including "president" along with his name.

President Donald J. Trump- makes me sick just typing it.

[BlueIdaho]

33. I hear ya

But it’s a formality used by all former elected officials.

[Norbert]

17. The right will bulk order the shit out of this

His book will not come close to selling as well as Macca's Lyrics book. lol

[LiberalFighter]

19. I would not buy a book that is only worth a couple of bucks at that price.

Tell everyone they have to be vaccinated before they can buy it. Or tell them there are microchips in the binding of the book.

[LiberalFighter]

20. I wonder how this will compete with families buying gifts at Christmas time?

[sinkingfeeling]

21. I only paid $50 for Pete Souza's beautiful 'Obama' photo book.

[tarheelsunc]

24. This is the very definition of "Not The Onion". eom

[Beaverhausen]

25. Winning Team Publishing?

Looks like he is self-publishing.

[Retrograde]

26. Is this the book Mel was working on

during the Capitol Riot? If not, what ever happened to that picture book? With all the self-publishing services around these days I'd have expected her coffee table book to be out by now.

[Ilsa]

27. A picture book is appropriate, given the literary IQ of him and his cult. nt

[UTUSN]

28. Never enough

[Wounded Bear]

30. I assume all the pictures are already colored in, right?

[dalton99a]

34. TLDR / Executive Summary:

[Kid Berwyn]

36. Booked.

[Vinca]

37. Too expensive to even give as a joke gift. I'll have to buy Trump toilet paper again.