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BOOK BUST: Jake Tapper Biden Bash Drops 67% in Second Week as Viewers and Readers Reject It

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No one wants Jake Tapper’s Biden bashing book.

“Original Sin” — written with Alex Thompson — dropped 67% in sales for its second week. Sales were just 17k, down from 53,000 according to NPD BookScan.

This is despite non stop shilling on CNN by Tapper and associates. It didn’t work. CNN viewers just didn’t care or believe the skewed reporting in the book.

Meantime Tapper’s ratings on CNN have dropped precipitously. Last night, The Lead averaged 450,000 viewers and was walloped, as usual, by MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace and Ari Melber.

“Original Sin” has dropped to 13 on the amazon best seller list after 2 weeks at number 4.

Despite the poor sales, the book remains at Number 1 for a second week on the New York Times list, which is pretty suspect. The number 1 book sold only 17,000 copies?

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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