Or do bookstores only stock right wing books? The most "left" book I can find at this Books A Million is the latest from Bernie Sanders ๐
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There's a huge grift in right wing book media.
They ghost write a book, buy it with campaign/superpac/donor/megachurch funds, and give them away at rallies, etc.
This has 3 benefits: funnels money to the "author", reinforces loyalty of those that get a free book, and makes them appear popular+legitimate by being a "new york times bestseller" (etc) which also gets them in more bookstores as you've described.
Yeah in the UK it's how they pay state assets lol
Is that right ? Any where I can read more ?
I know the newspapers and right wing tv channels are used to pay right wing loud mouths
I can't really furnish you with a link, though I saw some pretty convincing breakdowns back when I was on Twitter. Long story short, nobody is actually buying e.g. James Ball's books โ they don't even print nearly enough to cover what the author is paid. It's similar to the columnist grift, which is definitely a thing in the US too
No worries - in light of the info seen on this post , it seems almost a widespread technique