(Courtesy photo)Look Out, Stephen King: The Mueller Report's a Best-Seller
Nearly three weeks after its release, the Mueller report is still a hot property on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
May 08, 2019 at 02:40 PM
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Nearly three weeks after its release, the Mueller report is still a hot property on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
On April 19, the day after Special Counsel Robert Mueller III's “Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election” was released by the U.S. Department of Justice, two different versions of that report held the top two spots on Amazon's bestseller list, according to Variety. The first was an edition by Skyhorse Publishing titled, “The Mueller Report: The Final Report of the Special Counsel into Donald Trump, Russia, and Collusion.” Its 640 pages featured an introduction by Alan Dershowitz and supplementary documents including Rod Rosenstein's 2016 order appointing Mueller as special counsel and portions of Title 28 of the Code of Federal Regulations, the 1999 provisions written by former acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal, which establish and regulate the special counsel's powers. The second spot was a version of the report by the Washington Post and published by Scribner. At 736 pages, it also included supplementary documents and analysis by the Post's staff. A third, no-frills version was published by Melville House, including only the text of the report and “with no positioning or framing apparatus — such as a celebrity introduction — that would give it bias or impede its clarity,” the publisher said. That version entered Amazon's chart at #9.
All three versions also appeared on Barnes & Noble's bestseller list. The Skyhorse edition took the top spot, followed by Melville House at #6 and the Post at #8.
These were all preorders, scheduled to drop April 30. Sales of each are still going strong.
The Washington Post's version of the report ranks at #2 on Amazon's Most Sold Nonfiction chart. Tara Westover's Educated holds the number one spot. The Melville House edition appears at #13 on Amazon's Most Read Nonfiction chart. The Skyhorse edition is #1 on Amazon's Political Parties chart, where its Kindle edition holds the #3 spot. Several other editions of the report also appear on that chart, including one with a foreword by Allen West.
Meanwhile, at Barnes & Noble the Post's edition can be found at #29 on the seller's top 100 list, followed by the Skyhorse version at #30. The Melville House edition ranks at #61 on Barnes & Noble's Current Affairs and Politics Bestsellers list, where the Post and Skyhorse appear at #3 and #4, respectively.
The physical copies of the report sold better than the Kindle versions on Amazon, reports James Mattone at Thinkum Media.
The redacted Mueller report was available on April 18 as a free download from the DOJ website.
The Washington Post edition of the Starr report, published in 1998 and subtitled “The Findings of Independent Counsel Kenneth W. Starr on President Clinton and the Lewinsky Affair,” currently appears at #119 on Amazon's Political Reference chart.
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