Dopers are not, as a group, representative of the general population, so I don’t think you can draw conclusions about the book’s potential readers based on a few comments here.
I will probably get most of the content from excerpts posted online. However, I want to support the book’s success, so I’m going to buy it for my kindle.
ETA: I just did. 
I bet the majority of Dopers don’t read People, but that type of rag doesn’t seem to lack for sales. There seems to be a near endless market for celebrity gossip and reality TV - which the Trump admin essentially is.
Heard on the radio this a.m. something about the book already being #1 on Amazon.
No need to. I’m certain the Washington Post (and every other newspaper in the country) will pull out and publish the juiciest bits. I have no doubt they’ve already got a team working on it right this very moment.
Everything else, the Post has unfailingly provided a daily recap and merciless critique, to put it mildly, of everything Trump’s done (or not done) since months before Election Day.
Yeah, there’s a market out there for this sort of material, though it’s not the average Doper (save for those who are tryng to perversely drive up sales. I salute ye 
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And that was a sweet two-step with the C&D and the moving up of the release. At the very least it perpetuates the bizarre paradoxical Trump salesmanship aura. You stick his name on it, it sells, regardless of how good it is.
Dopers practically could’ve written this book themselves. Trump is so exposed, and his inadequacy so obvious, that you don’t really have to be a genius-or a White House insider–to see what’s going on.
Heck, just a sloppy search of things I myself have observed:
Really, for anyone paying the slightest attention, none of this should be new.
I’d suspect the same sort of people who read the Game Change books: Pretty easy to read books for people interested in politics/campaigns/administrations and who like getting the “inside story” to what was going on. Also a bit of salacious gossip to amuse the soul while covering it with a veneer of respectability. It’s not that I didn’t already know the highlights to those books, I just enjoyed reading them as one full narrative. I don’t begrudge anyone saying they’ll just get the best bits in new stories but I’m hoping for an interesting and entertaining read throughout the experience and if this book provides then hooray for me.
I formed my (negative) opinion of Trump quite some time ago, and his daily Tweets really pretty much say it all, but the excerpts of Wolff’s book have been highly entertaining, so I’m taking the plunge.
I say this despite having been highly disappointed by my schoolboy crush Katy Tur’s book on the campaign, which basically told me nothing I didn’t already know. Of course, given that she was on MSNBC every night reporting what later went into the book, well, duh. Wolff’s book seems to promise quite a lot more behind the scenes-type stuff, although I’m already wary that he seems to have included a lot of supposedly verbatim conversations that may or may not be reconstructions rather accurate quotes.
Fans of Michael Wolfe. Fans of Bannon. Fans of Kellyanne Conway. The whole Tea Party/Fox News fans, who simply dislike Trump – even if they had to vote for him to not get any Dem, not least Hillary.
I doubt there’s a single Hillary supporter that feels the need to read this book. But maybe some very devoted Republicans fell the need to know – How’d we end up here?
But there’s been a trash novel for each president – some sort of silly gossip novel for Regan, there was something about Dubya, but I can’t recall. If feel like this isn’t going to be a book with real substance – not the least because there isn’t much to begin with in the players, but because you can probably get two or three books if you hedge each conclusion and waffle about the points.
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I mean, I don’t feel a need but I have an interest.
I’ll let other people read it first, and post articles about all the worst bits. Then when it is available on sources like library genesis I may get a copy. If a paperback comes out for $7 I’ll buy that.
Nothing about the book is going to be a revelation, but it’s delicious to see people on his own staff being quoted calling Trump a child and a moron. For the people who hate Trump, the most unpopular first term president in history, it’s a delight to see them all backstabbing fighting and jockeying for position. Millions of people are going to read this book.
What’s astounding about the book, is that they are the ones who gave the author access. He sat in the West Wing interviewing people for weeks. He befriended them and got them to say negative things about the president and their colleagues with attribution. It’s just another example of how breathtakingly stupid and incompetent they all are. Like I said, I had no desire to read or buy the book until Trump tried to suppress it, now I’ll buy it because doing so hurts Trump and thus helps the nation
I haven’t read it, but it doesn’t sound like a usual gossip book, with salacious details about an otherwise functional presidency. It goes into the Russia investigation and Trump and his team trying to obstruct justice, and goes very deep into his unfitness for office. Many Hillary supporters won’t feel the need to read it since it just confirms to us what we already know, that he should never have become president, but I’m sure many will buy it and read it to wave at Trump supporters and yell “I told you so!”
Well from what I’ve read on Twitter and elsewhere, it sounds like he didn’t just befriend people, he befriended them and got off the record conversations and then put those into the book. I’ve seen some saying how that’s a major journalistic breach, but since he’s a reporter from the Hollywood Reporter he had no plans to go back to the WH after the book and didn’t need to be able to have coverage in the future.
I’d be interested in what journalists think about him putting the off the record stuff in the book. Normally that is a big ethical violation for journalists, but this is not a normal story. This is about the president of the United States and how his mind is deteriorating. I’m ultimately okay with Wolff lying to staffers and saying whatever he could to get things for the book.
Wolff doesn’t have a great reputation among journalists (Journalists scrutinize Michael Wolff’s credibility – POLITICO) but I haven’t yet seen any specific accusations by any of the people appearing in this book that they spoke off the record. The story is moving fast, so maybe I’ve missed them. I think Wolff is sleazy, but anyone who is pushing Trump closer to his final break with reality can’t be all bad.
My gf and I share a kindle family account. I just texted her that I was going to buy the book. She replied that I shouldn’t, as she already bought it. Yay!!
The Trump administration seems like a fat, juicy gazelle wandering into the midst of a pride of starved lions, socializing with the lions, then wondering, “***Why ***are you guys licking your chops like that?” Frightening.
Amazon reviews have started coming in. Fun times.
I bought it. One reason I bought this one, instead of others that have come through previously, is that other “tell alls” still seemed to me to be leaving the door open for the author or those who contributed to get back into Trump’s good graces. Accordingly, in my mind anyway, nothing in those books was a complete story.
This book, on the other hand, seems replete with people who are burning their bridges and care not. I hope to actually learn something. Yes, we think he sits up all night and tweets when Fox and Friends tells him to, but does he? If he is having mental or medical issues, does this book make them harder to ignore?
Anyone who wants to have a virtual book club, let me know. 
From a different Axios reporter who’s read the book:
It’ll be interesting how it shakes out. Even if 95% of the book is true and backed up with tapes and 5% are conversations made up that the author couldn’t have heard or other exaggerated or made up things, the Trump camp will of course jump on that 5%. And even the 95% that we know is true Trump will deny.
Nope. Zero interest.
Just downloaded my copy. I really look forward to the Trump team tearing themselves apart over this book, especially if they release audio of staffers shitting on Trump. I sooo hope that there is a telenovella style TV movie of this book with Sofia Vergara as Melania and Elizabeth Banks as Ivanka.