Liz Truss book enters bestseller list in 70th place with 2,228 copies sold

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1. > “the publisher that paid Truss an initial advance of £1,512 for the book”

   That seems really low, is it even worth it to write a book?

2. They are possibly good as a doorstop. Or given energy prices, as a substitute for firewood.

3. All that media coverage, podcasts and US fashy tour…… That’s all she can manage?

4. So around two copies for every hour she was PM then.

5. I think I’m going to ghostwrite a book and call it *Lettuce: My Life In The Fridge* (forward by Boris Johnson). I’d probably sell more copies.

6. Is that all you have to sell to be in 70th place! I expect they were mostly sold to who ever is desperate enough to run her marketing.

7. > Although Truss’s figures pale in comparison, she beat both on a copies-sold-per-day-in-Downing-Street basis.

   2 footed from the guardian. Love it… but guess they’re giving her book free publicity.

8. Wow, I course get in the top 100 with as little as that?

   Time to release my book about that time travelling ballet dinosaur who finds atlantis!

9. > Nielsen sales data puts Truss’s effort in 70th place on last week’s bestsellers’ list, outsold by titles such as the Ultimate Air Fryer Cookbook and More Confessions of a Forty-something F**k Up.

   > Truss, 48, has said her book is “not a traditional political memoir”.

   Ha, the reporter certainly took their opportunity there!

10. What is Liz truss going to do with the 2228 copies of her book she just bought?

11. So there’s 2,000 journalists who felt it necessary to read it to review?

12. What is the book about? How to lose £30B in a few days in the office or how to kill the Queen?

13. “…Although Truss’s figures pale in comparison (to Cameron’s and Blair’s memoirs), she beat both on a copies-sold-per-day-in-Downing-Street basis” is a tad nasty for such a gentle girl

14. Would be more interested in reading the lettuce’s autobiography

15. Bet she bought 2000 of them herself the wet lettuce

16. and none of the people who bought it were smart enough to read it.

17. Can the book stay in that list longer than a lettuce?

18. That book is about as real as the bible/quran/torah.

19. Some context here: https://twitter.com/LauraSRobinson/status/1783932581139915142

    > God these pieces irritate me. I’m no fan of Liz Truss, but her book was number 6 in the hardback non-fiction chart. HBs are more expensive than PBs ergo they sell less. It’s unusual for a HB to make the top 50 of books sold overall. Total clickbait

    As with the Tweet I don’t like Truss but we shouldn’t let ourselves be pandered too.

20. That’s a bestseller? Less than 3,000? I suppose that the crackpots needed something between David Irving and Douglas Murray’s latest masterpieces.

21. Can’t wait until she visits the factory to see the unsold copies being pulped.

22. There a book in dressing lettuce salad doing better that Truss’

23. How many of the 2228 copies did she buy herself? I’m betting on 2227. She probably sits on hundreds of copies every night masturbating at the idea of her being this great political brain

24. Doesn’t she know how the book game works? You do it while in office so people can legally bribe you

25. I wouldn’t want to meet any of those 2228 Fascist purchasers in real life.