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Do right wingers buy more books? (hexbear.net)

submitted 8 months ago by MayoPete@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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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 🙃

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[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 70 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 24 points 8 months ago

No, I think Donald Trump Jr. is definitely popular enough to make his book ”Triggered” a bestseller.

[–] Andrzej@lemmy.myserv.one 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah in the UK it's how they pay state assets lol

[–] dirtybeerglass@hexbear.net 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Andrzej@lemmy.myserv.one 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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 — 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

[–] dirtybeerglass@hexbear.net 3 points 8 months ago

No worries - in light of the info seen on this post , it seems almost a widespread technique