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InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.net to Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish ·
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Olivia Nuzzi’s much-hyped book - with RFK revelation - sells just over 1,200 copies. "American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.

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Olivia Nuzzi’s much-hyped book - with RFK revelation - sells just over 1,200 copies. "American Canto,” one of the most hyped political books of the year, flopped in bookstores.

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  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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    A Bluesky comment

    I can’t believe it flopped. I thought everyone was dying for a badly written account of what it’s like to have phone sex with a spoon stuck in a garbage disposal.

    • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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      Yeah I can’t imagine many people are hard up to read about Worm Man wanting to cum dump, go figure!

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    Forgetting the “having your grift book bought in bulk and shipped to landfills by your political benefactors” step of becoming a bestseller is kind of a silly mistake tbh

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      it’s like a microcosm of the thing where the next generation falls wholesale for the bullshit knowingly promoted by the previous stewards of empire. they think the bought-and-paid-for superstructure is the natural order not a carefully managed façade

      • RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        I fully believe that’s what’s happening here.

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      Fetterman just did the same thing iirc.

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    Nuzzi’s book compares in first week sales to those like John Fetterman’s “Unfettered” (2,600 copies in its first week) and Michael Wolff’s “All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America” (3,000 copies), both of which were largely considered busts.

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      Political books have never really sold well, all those NYTimes best sellers are manipulated anyways. Publishers order thousands of copies to pump up sales numbers. The people in charge now are so incompetent they forgot to buy their own books to make themselves look good.

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        The people in charge now are so incompetent they forgot to buy their own books to make themselves look good.

        That’s gotta be it, right? Are they so high on their own supply they’ve forgotten how to grift?

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        Ikr and those are truly humiliating #’s it’s wild they didn’t juice them more

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        Maybe nobody told her.

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      Ooof doing WORSE than “unfettered” is BRUTAL

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        Also - Fetterman is just a ginormous lump. Nuzzi was being marketed much more like a movie star than a reporter/writer. Nuzzi had at least two articles with loads of glamour photos. Typically that level of hyper PR creates its own buzz. But the public wasn’t interested at all.

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    Imagine sexting Nurgle to sell 1,200 copies.

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    Who is this?

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      A ‘Journalist’ who sold out her sources to RFK who she was banging(I only know this cause they talked about it on a recent chapo)

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        catgirl-disgust

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        kombucha-disgust

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        thanks to Bobby, I am now aware of something called felching

        this is the worst thing I’ve ever read

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    A Bluesky comment

    Not many people read American Canto but everyone who did started a substack.

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    All 1200 copies purchased to make fun of her

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    This is honestly a bit more sign of the times than the news, in a way. This kind of peripheral failure of these old media tentpoles like “doing a book tour” and shit is a bigger sign of the eroded/shifted media landscape and the baffling throes of the empire in decline

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    Rebrand it as smut with the cover being rfk with plagas mutation bursting out of his head longingly gazing into her eyes. Instant hit

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      “Take me!” I yelled with desirous intent. And his nuptial tentacle grabbed me by the…

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        Nuzzi"

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    Publishing all those excerpts probably had the opposite of the desired impact.

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      A guy on Bluesky went gaga. He had a huge excerpt thread. I tried to read it but Bluesky is even worse than Twitter for long threads. I know a blog post is super-uncool but good grief - make one for that shit. Nobody wants to read a micro blogging thread that’s even worse than Twitter. After 3 or 4 posts it’s too annoying.

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        Michael Hobbes?

        • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOP
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          Somebody else but I can’t find the post. Bluesky intentionally makes it super-hard to find anything in your browser history.

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    who need they nuzzi read

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