The book industry has seen significantly lower sales during the Biden presidency compared to the Trump era. Books about former President Donald Trump sold millions of copies, but those focused on Biden have struggled to generate interest. Several books about the Bidens have sold fewer than a humiliating 5,000 copies, while Trump-focused books sold hundreds of thousands to millions of units.
POLITICO reports:
…for the pandemic-era book [Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes] wrote on Joe Biden, Allen didn’t even get the satisfaction of seeing a copy in stores. He didn’t go on a tour, either. “Lucky: How Joe Biden Barely Won the Presidency” never made the Times best-seller list and so far has sold fewer than 10,000 copies since its release in March 2021, according to NPD BookScan, which is considered the gold standard of book sale measurement but does not include every sale.
Now, Allen says he’s turning his attention back to the Clintons. He has no plans to write another book on Biden.
“He has tried to be kind of a drama-free president, certainly in comparison to his predecessor, and that makes it harder to write a book, both in terms of getting information and turning his story into one that is compelling for readers,” said Allen.
“Biden never does anything interesting,” said Eric Nelson, publisher of Broadside Books. “The Hunter Biden stuff has done pretty well, because he’s appropriately interesting. But Hunter Biden is not the president.”
Gabriel Debenedetti’s “The Long Alliance: The Imperfect Union of Joe Biden and Barack Obama” sold fewer than 1,500 copies. Julie Pace and Darlene Superville’s “Jill: A Biography of the First Lady” sold fewer than 2,500. Chris Whipple’s “The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden’s White House” and Ben Schreckinger’s “The Bidens: Inside the First Family’s Fifty-Year Rise to Power” have each racked up fewer than 5,000 books sold.