Trump has been great not just for cable news, but also the publishing industry. More than 1,200 unique Trump-related titles-- memoirs and profiles from ex-aides, ex-government officials, supporters and critics. The public seems to have an inexhaustible thirst for Trump drama or hagiography (depending on your persuasion) as evidenced by the sheer volume of sales for many of these books--which helps keeps the cycle going. The NYT and TNR have good stories on this phenomena.
The biggest book of all appears to be Mary Trump's tell-all book about her uncle, that Trump sued to stop. It sold a record 1.3M copies in its first week; more than the 1.1M copies Trump's own Art of the Deal has sold between 1987 and 2016. Other massive best-sellers are Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury, Woodward's Fear (and likely his new one, Rage), Comey's A Higher Loyalty...A list of other books, both pro and anti-Trump is here:
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