Donald Trump Has Permanently Changed the Publishing Industry | The New Republic

As hard as it may be to believe, not too long ago, it was actually quite difficult to sell a book about Donald Trump. When investigative journalist David Cay Johnston sought a publisher for a biography shortly after Trump descended his golden escalator and announced his plans to seek the Republican nomination, he couldn't get anyone to bite. "I tried to do a book when Donald announced in June of 2015, and Alice Martell, my literary agent, called around," Johnston told Publishers WeeklyInternational news website of book publishing and bookselling including business news, reviews, bestseller lists, commentaries http://www.publishersweekly.com/ in 2016. "But nobody believed he would get the nomination, so nobody wanted the book." After Trump prevailed in the Republican presidential primary, two biographies were published-Johnston's The Making of Donald Trump and The Washington Post's Trump Revealed, both bestsellers.