While plenty of people are talking about Tucker Carlson's new biography by Chadwick Moore, the buzz did not translate to book sales.
The biography of Putin-worshiper Tucker Carlson is tanking at bookstores.
While people might be talking about Tucker, a new biography by Chadwick Moore about former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, the buzz apparently failed to translate to book sales. With so much hot goss about Carlson’s abrupt ouster from his top-rated Fox News show in the wake of the bombshell Dominion settlement, one would think that a book putting the cable news star in the spotlight — and featuring “hundreds of hours of interviews with Carlson” — would pump up sales. Not to mention Moore’s sensational promotional tour, jam-packed with rumors about Carlson’s firing and attacks on his former home. According to numbers provided by Publisher’s Weekly, Tucker, in its first week of release, sold just 3,227 hardcover copies, putting it at number 15 on the Hardcover Nonfiction list.
If everybody who bought a copy of Tucker took a seat at the United Center in Chicago for a Bulls game, that would still leave 17,690 empty seats.
Maybe the Russian translation will do better.
[S]elling a book can be a tough business, especially when you don’t have a built-in audience… but here’s the funny thing about that: Tucker Carlson has a built-in audience. When he was a host on Fox News, his ratings were great. And when he started Tucker on Twitter, they were even bigger! (Except they weren’t. Despite bragging about 114 million people tuning in to his post-Fox hate fest, many of those “views” were people who might have simply happened upon the tweet containing the video while scrolling through their feed. That doesn’t mean they all watched the full video.)
Tucker is simply a hyperventilating, self-promoting cheerleader for Trump and Putin. Maybe the sequel book should have the title Giving Fellatio to Narcissistic Fascist Dictators. That would probably sell more copies.