Liberals can’t stand it when conservative are successful, the author of Is the conservative book boom bubble about to burst? admits we outsell liberals.
It’s no joke that conservative books – not liberal ones – have been flying off shelves for the better part of the last decade. As we reported in August 2012, an Amazon Election Heat Map indicated that the vast majority of states, some 43, buy “red” books and about 56 percent of political book purchases are right-leaning.
Yet he confuses books with stocks, and thinks there’s a bubble that’s about to burst:
“You are left to rely completely on cable and radio [for promotion] and as a consequence of that, you have to provide those ventures the type of material they want,” Adam Bellow, who runs HarperCollins’ conservative imprint, Broadside, told BuzzFeed. “It’s become a kind of blood sport and the most ruthless gladiator comes out on top.”
Witnessing the conservative book industry’s success, increasing numbers of right-leaning personalities entered the field. Too many. While the number of conservative books skyrocketed, the audience didn’t grow much. The result? Oversaturation.
Or, as Coppins put it, “One agent compared conservative literature to Young Adult fiction, an unsexy niche genre that quietly pulled in respectable profits for years until the big houses took notice, and began entering into bidding wars for promising authors, and flooding the market in a frenzied attempt to find the next ‘Twilight.‘”
Broadside doesn’t understand talk radio, a guy like Rush is interested in two types of books. 1. Popular Books. 2. Great Books that Aren’t Popular Yet But Deserve To Be.
Coppins gladiator comparison is dumb, the pie isn’t limited, if Ann Coulter sells a million books that doesn’t mean no other conservative author can do the same.
The cream always rises to the top, the crap stays below. The publishing industry is simply jealous that today anyone can write and publish a book without going through them.
Instead of trashing our conservative writers, why don’t they focus on why liberal books aren’t selling? Liberals after all are the luckiest people in the world, they have every network promoting their ideas, they can plug their books on NPR, Oprah, PBS, CNN, CBS, maybe FNC if they’re not afraid of debating their ideas.
So could it be that liberals don’t like to read? Or maybe liberals already know the answer to every question so they don’t need to bother reinforcing their opinions?
In the end, books are written by individuals, some sell well, some don’t sell at all. There is no bubble, just a marketplace of ideas and at this time conservative ideas are hotter than ever because they’re a refreshing alternative to the liberal garbage everywhere else.
Can there ever be too many conservative books? I doubt it. There are millions of conservatives out there, and millions of issues interest them.
The blockbuster rise of conservative talk radio and Fox News Channel groomed “conservative celebrities” like Bill O’Reilly, Glenn Beck, Ann Coulter, Howard Stern, Mike Huckabee, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and scores of others whose success on screen translated to mega-sales in print.
Since when is Howard Stern a conservative? Howard may be unhappy with Obama now over taxes, but that doesn’t mean he’s a conservative.
