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tblue37

(65,404 posts)
Fri Jun 3, 2022, 01:07 PM Jun 2022

LOL! Kellyanne sold just 25K books, despite heavy media blitz:

https://www.showbiz411.com/2022/06/02/kellyanne-conway-couldnt-con-book-buyers-just-25000-in-sales-for-heres-the-deal

Here’s the deal: Kellyanne Conway’s book is a dud.

The memoir of her time lying to the American people and making a mockery of everything is sales fizzle.

“Here’s the Deal” sold just 25,000 copies in its first week. The second week should be a lot less, too. The book has already dropped to number 126 on amazon’s best seller list.

Compare Conway’s sales to those of Donald Trump’s dissenting niece, Mary Trump. Her first book, “Too Much and Never Enough,” clocked 1.35 million in his debut week. Michelle Obama? Her “Becoming” was well over a million, as well. And even Donald Trump himself sold about 240,000 copies of a coffee table book last winter, which is now being used as a large coaster. (It was self published by Trump’s self-parody of a son, Donald Jr.)

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LOL! Kellyanne sold just 25K books, despite heavy media blitz: (Original Post) tblue37 Jun 2022 OP
Didn't realize there were that many tables with a short leg lame54 Jun 2022 #1
RWNJ "bestsellers" are very often buoyed by bulk purchases, usually PACs or churches, RockRaven Jun 2022 #2
She'll keep her advance wryter2000 Jun 2022 #3
Mary Matalin's company is the publisher. tblue37 Jun 2022 #11
You made my day wryter2000 Jun 2022 #14
Well, it's one of two things TlalocW Jun 2022 #4
Yep. Check the NYT Book Review; there is a little symbol... keep_left Jun 2022 #8
Next stop: Clearance Rack at the Dollar Store. lpbk2713 Jun 2022 #5
10-15k is typical for a self-buyout Tarc Jun 2022 #6
I wonder if they exclude bulk purchases and only count individual persons. TheBlackAdder Jun 2022 #7
She has nothing to give to donors edhopper Jun 2022 #9
Nicely put: "self published by Trump's self-parody of a son, Donald Jr." ... Hekate Jun 2022 #10
Ha! My humble little tomato book is at 80K sales! NewHendoLib Jun 2022 #12
I should go buy it and make it 80,0001! Ms. Toad Jun 2022 #13
Please link it Polybius Jun 2022 #16
here! NewHendoLib Jun 2022 #17
K&R UTUSN Jun 2022 #15
Still more than Meghan McCain's book sold. GoCubsGo Jun 2022 #18
ScabbyAnne ConJob NCLefty Jun 2022 #19

RockRaven

(14,974 posts)
2. RWNJ "bestsellers" are very often buoyed by bulk purchases, usually PACs or churches,
Fri Jun 3, 2022, 01:13 PM
Jun 2022

depending on whether the author is a politico or a preacher. Apparently she doesn't have control over a PAC, nor is there one interested in helping her out.

wryter2000

(46,051 posts)
3. She'll keep her advance
Fri Jun 3, 2022, 01:13 PM
Jun 2022

And the publisher will take a bath. Serves them right. Maybe they’ll stop publishing this crap.

Have the right wing sites stopped making bulk sales?

TlalocW

(15,384 posts)
4. Well, it's one of two things
Fri Jun 3, 2022, 01:14 PM
Jun 2022

Usually the various organizations in the GOP cabal buy up new books from conservative authors to make them best sellers and then give them away when you donate a certain amount or join some group so...

Either they don't like what she has to say
Or they're short on funds

Maybe both?

TlalocW

keep_left

(1,783 posts)
8. Yep. Check the NYT Book Review; there is a little symbol...
Fri Jun 3, 2022, 01:26 PM
Jun 2022

...they put next to the phony astroturfed right wing books. It used to be a little dagger or cross. They started doing that at least a decade ago after sources started reporting to them about the bulk-buying book scam being run by the "think" tanks and Republican party groups.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216749758#post1

Tarc

(10,476 posts)
6. 10-15k is typical for a self-buyout
Fri Jun 3, 2022, 01:20 PM
Jun 2022

i.e. your own copies to give away, friends, family, promos, etc...

10,000 is the the high-water mar for legitimate "an individual paid with their own money" purchases.

edhopper

(33,587 posts)
9. She has nothing to give to donors
Fri Jun 3, 2022, 01:26 PM
Jun 2022

most GOP book grifters have multiple copies bought by donors in exchange for political favors. What can she offer? It's not like the MAGA mouthbreathers read.

Hekate

(90,714 posts)
10. Nicely put: "self published by Trump's self-parody of a son, Donald Jr." ...
Fri Jun 3, 2022, 01:27 PM
Jun 2022
And even Donald Trump himself sold about 240,000 copies of a coffee table book last winter, which is now being used as a large coaster. (It was self published by Trump’s self-parody of a son, Donald Jr.)

Ms. Toad

(34,075 posts)
13. I should go buy it and make it 80,0001!
Fri Jun 3, 2022, 02:22 PM
Jun 2022

I retired in April, and since I have more time I am working on nurturing my tomatoes this year - rather than just planting, watering, occasionally fertilizing, treating for blight, and enjoying a small crop (relative to the number of plants).

I just built two 7' A-frame trellises to string up my 9 indeterminate varieties (all heirlooms). So far, they are quite happy, and have already survived quite the wind/rainstorm the other day.

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