R.N.C. Spent Nearly $100,000 on Copies of Donald Trump Jr.’s Book
“Triggered,” published Nov. 5, topped the best-seller list thanks in part to a big order from the Republican National Committee.
Trump Jr.'s book "Triggered" reached the best-sellers list in part due to the RNC spending $100,000 buying in bulk.
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It's an open secret that conservative organizations do this with all of the books released by shithead conservative talking heads.
It's all just a grift
I wouldn't be surprised if the book was just an elaborate way to launder money
I wouldn't be surprised if the book was just an elaborate way to launder money
I thought they'd know by now that most conservatives don't read...
I mean, the target audience can't even spell RNC much less read an entire book filled with words.
Sorry about it.
Sorry about it.
Everyone in the White House and State Department knows what their Secret Santa gift is this year.
boomers love to read as long as it doesn't deviate away from jerking off guns or people just retelling them the same shit (my anecdotal experience)
Then are why are these conservative books such poor sellers?
John Iadarola did a segment on this on his show The Damage Report. Apparently this is a known thing for many conservative writers.
This is how most conservative authors become NYT Bestsellers. The books end up getting used as donation bait.
This is pretty common in the conservative world. Being going on for years, Al Franken used to talk about this on Air America. They buy books to get them on the bestseller lists.
Nick Confessore @nickconfessoreAn RNC spokesman previously told us "We haven't made a large bulk purchase, but are ordering copies to keep up with demand."
I asked today how that squares with buying almost a hundred grand worth of books on a single day.
Answer: "We stand by our statement."
2:37 PM - Nov 21, 2019
Yeah, I know nothing about the book world but even I can see they just want it on high profile lists. $100,000 is nothing in advertising money.
Should remove "only" from the title. Article says it hit the best seller list AND the RNC bought in bulk, not that the one was necessary for the other. We don't know if the book would have hit the list without the bulk buy.
Anyway the best seller list question is kind of a side track, I think, from the grift on display here:
Anyway the best seller list question is kind of a side track, I think, from the grift on display here:
Conservatives already dominate AM radio, its scary to think they're trying to literally buy their way into the literary world.
Yup. Hopefully this lets more people realize what the dagger symbol on the best seller list means.
Dagger symbols indicate bulk orders which means the debut is fake. This practice was popularized in 1969 for the film adaptation of True Grit where the studio wanted to make the book a best seller to help market the movie.
If it has a dagger symbol, its numbers are inflated by massive bulk orders. The ranking is fake and bought, like everything else surrounding the idiotic Trump family.
Dagger symbols indicate bulk orders which means the debut is fake. This practice was popularized in 1969 for the film adaptation of True Grit where the studio wanted to make the book a best seller to help market the movie.
If it has a dagger symbol, its numbers are inflated by massive bulk orders. The ranking is fake and bought, like everything else surrounding the idiotic Trump family.
They have a large section of that market carved out already. Just go to your local Walmart's book section and you'll find a lot of Trump propaganda books.
But none of those books are actually being bought, it seems, except for rich people for fundraisers who buy them in bulk and give out for free? So who's paying to publish them in the first place? Is it all one big scheme?
Years ago I used to work for a major US bookseller at the corporate level, and this was always something we had to keep in mind for retail orders. People who had their own platform and fans (guys like Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly) would reliably sell well, because there's a lot of conservative boomers who DO like to read. But a lot of the conservative pundits and politicians who didn't have that same built in audience would come out with "best sellers" that would just sit on shelves and never move close to the amount regular best sellers would.
Funnily enough, though, we WOULD get some bulk sales for those books, primarily from smaller conventions. A lot of times they'd get one of these people to speak, and part of the appearance fee was that the organizers had to buy a bunch of their books retail and then give them to the paid attendees. Happened a lot with business books too, which is why you'd see some of those sit on the best seller lists for years after publication.
Funnily enough, though, we WOULD get some bulk sales for those books, primarily from smaller conventions. A lot of times they'd get one of these people to speak, and part of the appearance fee was that the organizers had to buy a bunch of their books retail and then give them to the paid attendees. Happened a lot with business books too, which is why you'd see some of those sit on the best seller lists for years after publication.
It's not "only" -- but the book sold ~115,000 copies according to NPD BookScan, which tracks physical US book sales. Books-A-Million is charging $23.09 for a hardcover copy, meaning the RNC bought roughly 4100 copies; a little less than half the number needed to hit the bestseller list in the NYT, and literally enough on its own to hit the WSJ's bestsellers, based on my own quick dirty googling.
It's a significant purchase. It's also paid for with donor money. It's shitty either way.
So the rnc says they bought the books in bulk so they could sell em to individuals in their party?
That's fucking dumb. Trump level dumb. More likely they were boosting sales or money laundering.
That's fucking dumb. Trump level dumb. More likely they were boosting sales or money laundering.
It's not just GOP grifters gaming the NYT best sellers list. Anybody with money (or who is willing to pay a company that specializes in this) can inflate preorder numbers and make the list.
This author got busted and delisted, but the plan was to inflate the preorders so hard that they would get optioned for a film, sell the rights, then retire. The author even created an IMDB page for the book, listing herself as the lead actor.
The NYT can fix this. They choose not to.
This author got busted and delisted, but the plan was to inflate the preorders so hard that they would get optioned for a film, sell the rights, then retire. The author even created an IMDB page for the book, listing herself as the lead actor.
The NYT can fix this. They choose not to.
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