I go garage saleing every Saturday. I could by a dozen Tom Clancey books every week. Even more of the female best sellers.
But in six years I have only seen two or three Harry Potter books, and only one copy of "Midnight in The Garden of Good and Evil" (four years on the NYT list).
Hillary and Bill will eventually show up.
I think I have part of it figured out:
The harry potter books are things that can be read by kids over and over again. Why get rid of them if they can be used again???
Tom clancy, whether you like him or not, is kind of disposable. Read it once, you get it, and you move on. Better to sell it than to let it sit around.
Bill and hillary, on the other hand, are books that were bought out of 'obligation' to the cause but never actually read. Sure, maybe they read a hundred pages or so, but even the die hards couldn't digest it all. So they put them down and told themselves "one day I will finish that book." So there's no reason to sell it yet- it's still a project to be done, not one that's already finished.
Hillary's sales were well supported through fund raisers as it has always been a way around campaign finance laws. All politicians have at least one crappy book to their name.
I think its because the unions squander their member's dues on these kinds of things, buying massive loads of books, and they are either rotting in a warehouse somewhere, or maybe the AFL-CIO (I almost put ACLU here by mistake, but come to think of it, they may buy boatloads of books too and store or burn them, I doubt they give them away at membership drives, who joins the ACLU?) is shredding them now along with all evidence of how they spent their member's dues in the recent election.
"...only one copy of "Midnight in The Garden of Good and Evil"
I really enjoyed that book, it truly was exactly what I expected. Contrasted to the Alienist, which was rather a big let down.