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BARGAIN BIN ALERT: "Melania" flops bigly in first week book sales

The just released memoir by former First Lady Melania Trump proves to be a 'disaster', according to tracking from Circana Book Scan. In it's debut week, the wife of Presidential candidate Donald Trump sold a paltry 85,000 copies of the hardcover book titled 'Melania'. In comparison, former First Lady Michelle Obama sold 1.4 million in the first week with her memoir, 'Becoming', in November 2018. By November 2019, it had sold 11.5 million copies.

Over at Amazon, “Melania” is a dud on Amazon’s Kindle e-books at number 161. Amazon lists a large print paperback at 6,856. No audio book is available.

Donald Trump boasted at the Al Smith dinner that Melania Trump’s book, “Melania,” is number 1 on the NY Times best seller list.

But that will be for one week only.

“Melania” has not made it to number 1 on USA Today, Amazon, or at Barnes & Noble. It’s been outsold by Bob Woodward’s “War” and by Elvis Presley’s daughter, Lisa Marie Presley’s posthumous memoir.

At Barnes and Noble, “Melania” is number 40.

The Times list is ten days old when it appears. Initial sales and back orders propelled “Melania” to number 1. But the momentum wasn’t there.

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by Anonymousreply 25October 20, 2024 3:59 AM

[quote] The Times list is ten days old when it appears. Initial sales and back orders propelled “Melania” to number 1. But the momentum wasn’t there.

Does that explain the below-linked thread?

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by Anonymousreply 1October 19, 2024 11:15 PM

BEE BEst

by Anonymousreply 2October 19, 2024 11:16 PM

R1 Yes, it does. As the article states, it has not reached #1 on USA TODAY, AMAZON, or BARNES & NOBLE. The data NYT releases is over a week old.

by Anonymousreply 3October 19, 2024 11:19 PM

Wouldn’t a spoken word version be hilarious?

by Anonymousreply 4October 19, 2024 11:21 PM

An audio book would be rather difficult to understand, if she is doing the speaking. She struggles with English - it would be a struggle to listen to it.

by Anonymousreply 5October 19, 2024 11:23 PM

She can barely read and write, who wrote the book?

by Anonymousreply 6October 19, 2024 11:26 PM

[quote] She can barely read and write

She got a genius residency and went to Arkitekt School!

by Anonymousreply 7October 19, 2024 11:34 PM

That Trump University education is paying off bigly.

by Anonymousreply 8October 19, 2024 11:41 PM

Trump outsourced his campaign logistics to Elon Musk (lol) and that troll didn’t think to buy up 10,000 copies to hand out at rallies.

by Anonymousreply 9October 19, 2024 11:45 PM

She should package the book and her lovely Valentine’s Day necklace together!

by Anonymousreply 10October 20, 2024 12:19 AM

She should include a small envelope with some authentic shaved pussy hair in the book - that will encourage the ol' MAGA geezers to purchase it. "Pooosy Hair for You, From Melania With Love. No Return Book - How You Say ? - Final Sale."

by Anonymousreply 11October 20, 2024 12:30 AM

"She can barely read or write...."

Neither can her targeted market: her husband's MAGAt supporters, so the sales figures should be surprising to no one.

by Anonymousreply 12October 20, 2024 12:34 AM

R5 right 😆. First of all, Magas don’t read books and I think many other conservatives wouldn’t buy a book from her. There is no audience for her when it comes to BOOKS.

by Anonymousreply 13October 20, 2024 12:40 AM

I’ve said this a few times on this site. I will never forget when the she and Dump were on Larry King and they showed a clip of 5 yr old Barron getting ready for school. He had Slovenian accent. King’s old Brooklyn ass quickly pointed it out with no fucks to give. Trump was hella embarrassed, you could tell. And Melania proudly said in the fkin whore accent, “That’s cause he’s always with meeee”

by Anonymousreply 14October 20, 2024 12:44 AM

Melania was always with Barron back then, and Trump was always with porn stars. Fair and balanced.

by Anonymousreply 15October 20, 2024 12:47 AM

Are you telling me MAGAts aren't avid readers?

by Anonymousreply 16October 20, 2024 12:51 AM

I couldn't possibly be less interested.

by Anonymousreply 17October 20, 2024 2:41 AM

For those of you who don't know about publishing, this is how it works:

There's an outfit in Texas that will guarantee your book is a bestseller. It costs between $500K and a million, and you get a guaranteed spot on the Times bestseller list. Each year about twenty to thirty "authors" use this service so they can say they had a NY Times bestseller. Everyone from politicians to billionaires to Clarence Thomas (I'm sure Mr. Leo did it for him) have used this service. The way to spot it is how fast a book that is supposedly a number one bestseller stays on the list. If it's a real bestseller, it lingers. If it's a bought bestseller, it leaves fairly quickly.

The service is done through a network of people who buy the book across the country, I can't tell you more because I sighed an NDA.

by Anonymousreply 18October 20, 2024 2:47 AM

I'll wait for the movie version.

by Anonymousreply 19October 20, 2024 2:55 AM

[quote]her most concrete goal described in the book: “I hope to have the opportunity to bring excellent skincare products to market in the future under more favorable circumstances.”

She's a regular Eleanor Roosevelt!

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by Anonymousreply 20October 20, 2024 3:25 AM

Trump lies about his prostitute/third wife’s book sales-Shocking-Absolutely Shocking

by Anonymousreply 21October 20, 2024 3:30 AM

I alway imagine her quite like Sophie from “Two Broke Girls” - “I’ll be in my boot”

by Anonymousreply 22October 20, 2024 3:43 AM

Not to worry,, Saudi Arabia and Russia have yet to place their orders.

by Anonymousreply 23October 20, 2024 3:54 AM

She's in for a rude awakening, r20. Although the venture would probably just be a money laundering scheme.

by Anonymousreply 24October 20, 2024 3:58 AM

Back to selling poosey at truck stop!

by Anonymousreply 25October 20, 2024 3:59 AM
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