Nuzzi’s book compares in first week sales to those like John Fetterman's "Unfettered" (2,600 copies in its first week) and Michael Wolff's "All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America" (3,000 copies), both of which were largely considered busts.

[–] Self_Sealing_Stem_Bolt@hexbear.net 29 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Political books have never really sold well, all those NYTimes best sellers are manipulated anyways. Publishers order thousands of copies to pump up sales numbers. The people in charge now are so incompetent they forgot to buy their own books to make themselves look good.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 24 points 1 month ago

The people in charge now are so incompetent they forgot to buy their own books to make themselves look good.

That's gotta be it, right? Are they so high on their own supply they've forgotten how to grift?

[–] LaBellaLotta@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago

Ikr and those are truly humiliating #’s it’s wild they didn’t juice them more

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

Maybe nobody told her.

[–] LaBellaLotta@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ooof doing WORSE than “unfettered” is BRUTAL

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago

Also - Fetterman is just a ginormous lump. Nuzzi was being marketed much more like a movie star than a reporter/writer. Nuzzi had at least two articles with loads of glamour photos. Typically that level of hyper PR creates its own buzz. But the public wasn't interested at all.