The Publishing Industry's Political Tell-All Trend Is Flagging

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Interest in political nonfiction has dipped since last year's stellar numbers. Michael Wolff embodies the trend, with sales of his 'Fire And Fury' followup, 'Siege,' failing to break into the top 20 top-selling books of 2019 so far.

aside, the only overtly political 2019 nonfiction book to spend more than a single week at number one, Fox News contributor Mark Levin's. That's a huge number, but also a far cry from 2018's biggest political bestsellers.

If book sales indicate that readers' interest in polital content is flagging, their actual reading habits confirm it: After looking into their 2019-to-date data at my request, the micro-learning app Blinkist has found that the consumption of Politics books across the first half of 2019 was 22% less than what it would have expected, based on annual growth.

Granted, political nonfiction is still selling perfectly well. They're just not selling millions of copies within a couple weeks. That sort of gangbusters performance may well have been limited to 2018.

 

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