Look at the advances Pelosi, the Clintons, Deval Patric from MA, and other lefties get compared to actual sales. A million advance and they sell 10,000 $10 books.
You have certainly explained why I see the big mangled bins of books in the middle isles of Walmart next to the electronics department. I even bought a Greg Gutfeld book out of one a couple of years ago. I think I’m going to throw it in my wood stove after listening to him melt down over Donald Trump. I don’t think I paid $10. dollars for it though. Probably $5. It might provide 15 minutes of heat.