A Chicago story
The BBC notes that Michelle Obama’s memoir is knocking down all the records.
Becoming, first published just five months ago, has already sold more than 10 million copies, Bertelsmann said.
“We believe that these memoirs could well become the most successful memoir ever,” said Thomas Rabe, chief executive of the German firm.
She has one hell of a story to tell, and she knows how to write.
Michelle Obama’s book, which explores her experience from childhood, her work, motherhood and her time in The White House, has been praised for its universal appeal across genders and ages.
And races, it would seem.
I don’t see that happening with any memoir by Melania Trump, or any other Trump. They wouldn’t be any good, obviously, but also, people who like to read and think tend not to be fans of the Trump gang, even Republicans.
I do suspect that there would be quite a few people buying Trump memoirs, though, just to “trigger libs”. I wouldn’t want to bother putting out a book for people who would buy it and not read it. Seems like a waste of time.
iknklast:
But they might know someone literate enough to read it to them. Besides, you just know that any book written for and about a Trump will be bought in record-breaking quantity by the Trumps because they will not tolerate an Obama outselling them.
Nah, they’ll wait for the T-shirt.
Oh…
iknklast
It’s not a waste of time if the goal is propaganda. Books by right-wing polemicists like Ann Coulter are bought in bulk by RW organizations purely in order to boost sales. The author and her allies can then brag about sales.
(Can’t remember where I read about this tactic. It may have been in David Brock’s Blinded By the Right.)
(Do left-wing polemicists do the same thing? I don’t know.)
I know that JFK’s dad bought enough of his son’s (auto-?) biography to put him on the bestseller list before the boy ran for President. And I’m sure conspiracy theorists will accuse Obama of having employed the same tactics.
Oh yes, I’d forgotten that – except I think it was Profiles in Courage, no? I don’t think JFK wrote an autobiography.
Yeah, I read about that Ann Coulter thing. Too bad I don’t have rich friends; I could use the boost. Any of you want to volunteer to put me on the bestseller list? ;-)
Scientology is notorious for churning book sales to make Hubbard’s drivel look ‘important.’
JtD, I have a hard-back, first edition copy of Scientology 8008 (8008 is a ‘magic’ number in loony – sorry, Scientological circles, apparently). I paid 50 whole pence for it at a charity shop. I have no idea what it’s about because, despite several attempts to read the thing, it’s such nonsensical gibberish that I always give up before the end of chapter one. To put that in context, I have read the Bible, both testaments, at least twice, as well as English language versions of the Koran, Hadith, and the Torah in their entirety.