A Washington, D.C., bookstore reportedly sold out of copies of Michael Wolff's "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House" minutes after its release.
Kramerbooks ran out of the book, which chronicles President Trump Donald John TrumpHouse Democrat slams Donald Trump Jr. for ‘serious case of amnesia’ after testimony Skier Lindsey Vonn: I don’t want to represent Trump at Olympics Poll: 4 in 10 Republicans think senior Trump advisers had improper dealings with Russia MORE's first year in office, within 20 minutes of its midnight release, according to BuzzFeed News's Chris Geidner.
“We sold out in less than 20 minutes.” - @kramerbooks sales clerk — Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) January 5, 2018
Photos and video of the DuPont Circle bookstore posted online in the early hours of Friday showed a packed house as dozens of eager readers stood in line to get a copy of the bombshell book.
"Fire and Fury" made headlines this week as excerpts surfaced in the news media ahead of its official release. Those excerpts painted a picture of a White House in chaos and sparked a feud between Trump and his former chief strategist, Breitbart News head Stephen Bannon, who is quoted speaking critically of the president and his family in the book.
Trump responded angrily to Bannon's quotes this week, releasing a sharply worded statement saying that the former chief strategist had "lost his mind" and insisting that Bannon had nothing to do with his presidency.
Lawyers for Trump also sent a cease-and-desist letter to Bannon and accused him of violating a non-disclosure agreement. They also sent a cease-and-desist letter to the book's publisher, demanding that its publication be withheld.
The publisher, Henry Holt & Company, moved up the release date in response.
Kevin_IRL on January 5th, 2018 at 20:55 UTC »
The author of that book was probably throwing a fucking party when he got the cease and desist because an even better headline than "inside look at Trump campaign and whitehouse" is "President sends cease and desist to author of a book detailing an inside look at his campaign and administration."
Orbo1 on January 5th, 2018 at 17:55 UTC »
Ironically that effort to stop the book's release helped generate discussion and certainly drove a lot of the sales. I think it'd be really tacky but I can imagine a sticker or caption on the book along the lines of: "The book the president doesn't want you to read."
TheLadyEve on January 5th, 2018 at 15:16 UTC »
I bought it, although I tend to be interested in political nonfiction regardless. I've gotten through the first 50 Kindle pages so far--it's a quick read and competently written. I hope there will be discussion in this sub about the book without it becoming a big old flame war, because I'd be interested in hearing others' thoughts on it.