"The day after Fetterman's book dropped, I called a handful of Barnes and Nobles [sic] and independent bookstores in Pennsylvania, reported Defector Media's Alex Shultz. The Barnes and Noble in Yorkwhere Fetterman was born and raisedhad sold zero copies. The Barnes and Noble in Philadelphia had sold two copies. Shultz added that two independent stores told him they were not stocking the book, while another store revealed that interest in Unfettered had been lukewarm."
"A few days after Unfettered came out, it was ranked No. 82,145 among all books on Amazon. As of Monday, Nov. 17 (not quite a week since the book's release), it's No. 15,713. While Unfettered is currently listed as the number one bestselling Amazon book under the category United States Local Government, it is only narrowly beating Pete Buttigieg's memoir Shortest Way Home, which came out all the way back in 2019."
"There is no audience for Unfettered, and I do not think Crown will get its money's worth on this memoir, wrote Shultz, who described the book as a boring, predictable memoir full of what the country already knows, along with reminiscences about the time the senator peed his pants as a child and was told he was too tall to go trick-or-treating."
Sen. John Fetterman's memoir Unfettered sold zero copies at the Barnes & Noble in York, where he was born and raised, and only two copies at the Barnes & Noble in Philadelphia during the first days after launch. Fetterman and his ghostwriter received an advance of more than one million dollars from publisher Crown. Several independent Pennsylvania bookstores declined to stock the book or reported lukewarm interest. The book ranked poorly on Amazon initially and rose modestly, later selling less than 2,600 copies in its first week and ranking No. 19 in adult autobiographies.
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