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I want to quickly emphasize that they are data driven enough to understand that lots of people buy those books because about 51-54% of the country doesn’t and n

I want to quickly emphasize that they are data driven enough to understand that lots of people buy those books because about 51-54% of the country doesn’t and never did like him.

kortilla 5y ago
But who are those books for? I don’t buy books about politicians I don’t like.
- rejectedandsad 5y ago
  A non-trivial number of people do across the political spectrum. Political memoirs for instance are usually ghostwritten (outside of the first Obama book and maybe the Pete book given he was a nobody) and are only purchased in order to show support for the candidate. It's a team spirit thing. Plus, I'm sure some have their own niches (satire, exposés like "Frankly we won this election" that have new reporting, etc) and many have their own historical value. I saw an ant-Tom DeLay book in the wild a few years ago well after his fall from grace and considered buying it just as a keepsake of the era.
  - kortilla 5y ago
    No, not books meant to paint politicians in a good light. I’m talking about these “orange man bad” books. Why would I want to spend hours of my life reading more details about a man I don’t want occupying my mind?
- WalterBright 5y ago
  I do. "Don't like" is not the same as "not interesting".
WalterBright 5y ago
I read a couple months ago that publishers were being pressured not to publish books by Trump insiders.
- rejectedandsad 5y ago
  Yeah, and that probably didn't stem much of the flow because the rest were published by journalists. If anything some of the insiders' accounts were just as scathing as the explicitly anti-Trump books, which is saying something.
pclmulqdq 5y ago
The last barnes and noble I went to had a liberal shelf and a conservative shelf (not labeled as such, but clearly separated). I live in a county that biden won by <1%. It's clearly a data-driven decision and both sides of the aisle love buying books from their tribe.
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I want to quickly emphasize that they are data driven enough to understand that lots of people buy those books because about 51-54% of the country doesn’t and never did like him.

kortilla 5y ago

But who are those books for? I don’t buy books about politicians I don’t like.

rejectedandsad 5y ago
A non-trivial number of people do across the political spectrum. Political memoirs for instance are usually ghostwritten (outside of the first Obama book and maybe the Pete book given he was a nobody) and are only purchased in order to show support for the candidate. It's a team spirit thing. Plus, I'm sure some have their own niches (satire, exposés like "Frankly we won this election" that have new reporting, etc) and many have their own historical value. I saw an ant-Tom DeLay book in the wild a few years ago well after his fall from grace and considered buying it just as a keepsake of the era.
- kortilla 5y ago
  No, not books meant to paint politicians in a good light. I’m talking about these “orange man bad” books. Why would I want to spend hours of my life reading more details about a man I don’t want occupying my mind?
WalterBright 5y ago
I do. "Don't like" is not the same as "not interesting".

WalterBright 5y ago

I read a couple months ago that publishers were being pressured not to publish books by Trump insiders.

rejectedandsad 5y ago
Yeah, and that probably didn't stem much of the flow because the rest were published by journalists. If anything some of the insiders' accounts were just as scathing as the explicitly anti-Trump books, which is saying something.

pclmulqdq 5y ago

The last barnes and noble I went to had a liberal shelf and a conservative shelf (not labeled as such, but clearly separated). I live in a county that biden won by <1%. It's clearly a data-driven decision and both sides of the aisle love buying books from their tribe.

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