I’ve heard it’s not uncommon for the team of the person who wrote them to buy all of them up to get it on the top list and then just gift them/chuck them or store them indefinitely.
I recall seeing a staged photo of George W. Bush carrying a copy of Bernard Goldberg’s Bias, and thinking the pope shitting in the woods is more likely than W. reading a chapter of any book.
I’ve heard it’s not uncommon for the team of the person who wrote them to buy all of them up to get it on the top list and then just gift them/chuck them or store them indefinitely.
Here’s a very good article on this republican practice: https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/474662-the-myth-of-the-conservative-bestseller/
I recall seeing a staged photo of George W. Bush carrying a copy of Bernard Goldberg’s Bias, and thinking the pope shitting in the woods is more likely than W. reading a chapter of any book.