"...their bigger concern would be ensuring the book's accuracy." (Trump memoir)

[Nevilledog]

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Put the nets below the fact checkers offices.

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The prospect of a Trump memoir is proving divisive in the publishing industry. Some publishing executives worry that signing him would prompt a revolt among their authors and staff, but they say their bigger concern would be ensuring the book’s accuracy. https://nyti.ms/3pEKRFp
11:53 AM · Nov 18, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/18/books/trump-memoir-publishers.html

When American presidents leave office, regardless of their parties or approval ratings, a common ritual awaits: They write books, capturing the moment for history and sharing insight into one of the world’s most unusual jobs.

But publishers are at odds over such a project with President Trump, even though his presidential memoir would likely sell millions of copies. It is a debate that pits powerful commercial interests against fraught political and cultural fault lines, with some executives worried that signing him would prompt a revolt among their authors and staff, and that ensuring the book’s veracity could be an even bigger concern.

“I would take a meeting,” said Dana Canedy, the senior vice president and publisher of Simon & Schuster’s namesake imprint. “But there’s a huge gap between taking a meeting and publishing a book.”

Concentrated in New York City, mainstream book publishing is dominated by editors, agents, publicists and other professionals who are politically left of center, but the big houses all sign books by conservatives, seeing it as key to their mission and their business.
Sean Hannity is at Simon & Schuster. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is at Macmillan. Newt Gingrich has been published by divisions of Penguin Random House, Hachette and Macmillan.

Mr. Trump has published more than a dozen books with houses that include Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins and Penguin Random House, though some titles have sold more than others. According to NPD BookScan, “Trump: The Best Golf Advice I Ever Received” has sold about 3,500 copies through traditional retail channels, like Amazon or big-box stores, since it came out 15 years ago. “The Art of the Deal” has sold more than 630,000 copies.

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[nykym]

1. the solution is to publish it as

Dark comedy, fiction.

[abqtommy]

9. That's right. Any competent librarian will know how to classify it.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Which states allow felons serving time to publish books?

[CatMor]

3. I'm not sure "millions" of his followers can read ...

so would they still buy the book?

[renate]

4. In all seriousness, that was my first thought too

Not necessarily that they can’t read, just that they aren’t likely to.

[JHB]

7. They'll buy it. Read, shmead, it's merch to buy to support their Favorite President

[lame54]

8. The non-bible readers will definitely buy it

[PatSeg]

5. He could always self publish

Or open his own publishing firm when he starts his TV network.

[crickets]

6. It's a no-brainer when it comes to trump.

If accuracy is an issue for publishers, they all should just walk away. No, I take that back. They should run.

[Solly Mack]

10. In the beginning, there was Trump, and all was tremendous and beautiful and bigly.

The end.


LMAO

A Trump memoir would be nothing but lies.