Readers can’t get enough of Hager’s dirt
Printers are going ‘‘as hard as they can’’, but demand for Dirty Politics is unceasing.
After Nicky Hager’s book was published last Thursday, the first run of 4000 sold out before lunchtime.
Four days and 10,000 copies later, and you’d still be lucky to get your hands on it.
Dirty Politics: How attack politics is poisoning New Zealand’s political environment, is based on thousands of emails revealing the extent of the relationship between Rightwing blogger Cameron Slater and prominent National Party figures.
Unity Books Auckland owner Jo McColl said there had been no slowing of interest in the expose. When the store opened on Thursday, all its copies of Dirty Politics had been sold via pre-orders. An extra 300 books arrived on Friday morning, only to sell out by Saturday afternoon. ‘‘We’ve ordered another 200, arriving tomorrow morning.’’ She said the release of further information online today would likely cause another rush for Dirty Politics.
Craig Potton Publishing executive director and publisher Robbie Burton said 10,000 copies had sold, including forward orders through stores. ‘‘Books we’ve sold and firm orders combined, we’ve got just shy of 10,000 books,’’ he said. ‘‘And we’ve sold 1000 ebooks as well.’’
Printers were going ‘‘as hard as they can’’. ‘‘Demand is showing absolutely no sign of diminishing.’’ Wellington and Auckland were the biggest markets, but ‘‘it’s coming from all over the place’’.