What, the usual GOP modus operandi of "Launder Russian money by buying a shitload of these books to force them onto best-seller lists and then give them away at our klan rallies" isn't happening now?
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She may be dumb enough to think people were actually buying those books.
If only her supporters could read 😔
If her supporters could read, they wouldn't support her.
Inb4 she's next year's new RINO.
Man web search is getting really bad. I can't find where that happened and normally it would be pretty easy. Was that a Bush II-era thing or was that a Trump thing?
It's a standard way to funnel campaign donations into your personal bank account. You negotiate a big percentage of each book sell with the publisher or self publish, have a ghost writer whip out a book, then use campaign money to buy the books to hand out at rallies.
So you get a 30% cut of each sale and you buy 1mil of books with politcal donations, boom! You just got 300k, and you profit from any rube actually buying the book out in the world.
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It's a common thing where they game the system to appear on best seller lists, but the Russian money thing is speculation. But it's surprisingly easy to do even without Russian funds.
The myth of the conservative bestseller
The GOP’s big bulk book-buying machine is boosting Republicans on the bestseller lists
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The Venn diagram of people who read and people who care about MTG is an "8"
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If those people knew their numbers or even knew what a venn diagram was, they would be unfathomably angry
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- Tell everyone reading books is bad.
- Write a book.
- Profit.
Well, in this case:
~~3. Profit~~
There is hope for the world
She forgot step 2a) Have some political action committees purchase thousands of copies of your book to make it appear on bestseller lists despite few actual humans buying copies.
She can read?
She can write??
Her followers can read??
Their lack of literacy would explain the poor sales numbers.
You’d think they’d be stocking up on burnables for winter, though?
Most likely a ghostwriter.
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Maybe
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Not really
She wrote a book for people who refuse to read.
Normally all of these books are straight trash but GOP PACs buys up thousands of copies to get them on best seller lists. Greene seemingly doesn't have support of a competent PAC that knows how to grift. So while on the surface this makes her look out of touch, reading deeper the low sales also mean her support from the party is thinner than her resume.
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Another reader joked that the book had nothing to do with Magic: The Gathering
heh
Good. Now stop giving it free advertising by writing about it in your publication!
Yet, we're writing articles about it, posting about it, commenting on it. Exactly what this freak wants.
ranking 9,735 among its best-selling books as of Monday, November 27
I watched a TikTok over the weekend by an author who was ranked 87th (83rd? Somewhere in the 80's) on Amazon bestsellers and she dished that the number of books including pre-orders that she sold her first week to attain that rank: 650 copies.
Now maybe this is the rank on the annual or overall bestselling list where you would expect a recent release to rank poorly (in which case, awful journalism to pick a meaningless stat to manipulate the message - I don't care if we do happen to align politically, don't do that shit), but if that is the weekly list, those 8 reviews she got might be the total number of sales.
It's a book that banned itself.
I'm impressed they were able to teach a monkey how to write at all
Just because she's the author, doesn't mean she wrote it.
Like "Trump's" Art of the Deal: when you're a celebrity, you can slap your name on any ghostwritten/AI-generated bullshit and get some sales. Guess MTG is not the celebrity she thinks she is.
I always figured these politician written books were just another way to funnel campaign money into their own pockets. Campaign or associated big donors & PACs buy thousands of copies of the books with campaign money. She must not have as much support as she though and her own campaign might be cash strapped.
It's almost as if her target audience for it don't read.
I heard it was a self published coloring book highlighting the various forms of VD this trollop collected while working the glory holes around DC.
She looks like a summer sausage.
You're not wrong, but that white coat with the huge baby-seal-killing fur collar she wore to the last State of the Union address made her look like a human toilet brush, IMO.
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I'm sure it will do great once it hits the dollar stores...
Depends how absorbent the pages are
In business I think we call that misunderstanding your core demographic.
Watch her pivot to blaming either being cancelled, or the Jews running the media, taking that line to her fans that have never bought a book in their lives.
How do you even write a book when you have no idea what the inside of one even looks like? For all we know the inside of her book is hollowed out to hold a gun.
Step 1) Pay someone to write a book for you. Give them general notes about what you want in it, but they can come up with the details.
Step 2) Sell the book and (theoretically) get profits.
Optional Step 3) Pay your ghost writer. Hey, if you're following the Trump model, paying people for the work they do for you is optional.
Nobody wants to launder money for her or ?
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