A Trump Political Committee Bought $131,000 Worth Of Books. Four Days Later, Jared Kushner's Hit The
One of Donald Trump’s political committees spent $158,000 on books just weeks after the release of Jared Kushner’s memoir.
“Breaking History: A White House Memoir” hit book shelves on Aug. 23. Two weeks later, the Save America Joint Fundraising Committee, which raises money for two Trump PACs, paid retailer Books-A-Million $131,000 for “collateral:books,” according to a campaign filing made Saturday with the Federal Election Commission.
On Sept. 11, four days after that bulk purchase, Kushner’s book appeared for the first time on the New York Times best sellers list.
On Sept. 22, Save America purchased another $27,000 worth of books. “Breaking History” spent five weeks on the best-seller list before falling off.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2022/10/16/a-trump-political-committee-bought-131000-worth-of-books-four-days-later-jared-kushners-hit-the-best-seller-list/
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...about 20 years ago in the NYT Book Review. Their "sources and methods" found out about the right-wing "think" tanks and book clubs scamming the best-seller lists and acted accordingly, by creating an indicator to show that many of the book sales were not legit. It turns out that most of these books are bought for pennies on the dollar and given away at the "think" tank rubber-chicken fundraisers. Many are also given away as premiums for joining right-wing book clubs and media groups (I recall WorldNetDaily being one of them). Anything they can't give away goes to the dollar stores or is shredded.
Apropos, there was a minor scandal and lawsuit a few years ago where it was revealed that authors like Ann Coulter were being cheated out of royalties. Apparently there was a legally obscure clause in their contracts that stated (very unclearly) that any books that were part of this scam earned them no income at all. Couldn't happen to nicer people! 
Certain entities "buy in bulk" so as to fool the public into believing it's a "bestseller". 
I know what we will be seeing next spring. Some folks actually hold on to those vanity books for a year or more, but we are so conflicted about what to do with them. We want to put them in the dumpster and I, personally, would like to burn them, but just can't do something like Hitler did. We have all of Bill O'Reilley's "Killing...(Jeebus, Kennedy, Patton, Lincoln, Reagan"
books and not a one has sold in over 10 years. We can't even give them away. I imagine the same will be true of idiot Kushner's book. Bleah!!!!
