JD Vance's book Hillbilly Elegy has soared to number one on the New York Times and Amazon bestseller lists after he was named former President Donald Trump's running mate.
The book was first published more than eight years ago.
However, demand for the book has been so high since the Republican National Convention that the publisher, HarperCollins, is planning massive reprints. Hillbilly Elegy went from #1,773 on Amazon to #3 in a few hours pic.twitter.com/GXij63lLtz
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As of July 25. the publisher told the Associated Press that Hillbilly Elegy had sold 650,000 copies since Trump's announcement ten days before. Hillbilly Elegy has sold 600,000 copies in the last 10 days.
The film has been a Top 10 movie on Netflix for 10 days.
The more people know JD Vance, the more they like him, and millions of Americans are getting exposed to his story as we speak.
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) July 25, 2024
According to a report from Publisher's Weekly, while still popular, the book had only sold about 10,000 new copies in the first half of the year.
“We are printing hundreds of thousands of copies to fill the demand at our retail partners,” the publisher announced as sales began to skyrocket.
The AP report explains: Hillbilly Elegy has rocketed up to #3 on Netflix after Trump chose JD Vance as his Vice President pic.twitter.com/1OROMUiOatVance's book already had sold more than 3 million copies before Trump chose him for the Republican ticket. “Hillbilly Elegy,” which Ron Howard adapted into a feature film released in 2020, tells of Vance's childhood in Ohio and his family's roots in rural Kentucky. After Trump's stunning victory in 2016, the book was widely cited as essential reading for Trump opponents trying to understand his appeal to working class whites, even as some critics faulted it at as a narrow and misleading portrait of Appalachia and of poverty in the U.S.
The book's film adaptation is also currently one of Netflix's most-watched movies. It has remained in the streaming platform's global top ten ever since the RNC.
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The movie has been on Netflix since 2020 when it came out.
