The publishing industry's Muellermania is officially out of control
As of Thursday morning, no one knows how much of the Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report will be redacted — or even how long it is — but that hasn't stopped the publishing industry from going hog wild over getting it into print as fast as possible.
On Amazon, you can already take your pick of six versions of the Mueller Report, from Skyhorse's edition (with an introduction by Alan Dershowitz), The Washington Post's edition (which includes analysis by staff reporters), an audiobook version (available "only from Audible"), Melville House's edition (which has an initial print run of an impressive 50,000 copies), Brown Books Publishing Group's Kindle edition (with lawmakers co-writing a bipartisan introduction), and a plain Kindle version ("free of additional commentary").
That's not even to include Muller Report-adjacent publications that have already come out, including The Mueller Report by humorist Jason O. Gilbert, A Comprehensive Review of the Lies in the Mueller Report: Exhaustive Analysis of Each and Every Specific Lie by Nate Roberts (all the pages are blank — get it?), and The Mueller Meme Report: Winners Aren't Losers - A Coloring Book Meme Guide to All the Russian Collusion Found After 657 Days of Investigating, self-published by "Trumpy McTrumpface."
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Jeva Lange was the executive editor at TheWeek.com. She formerly served as The Week's deputy editor and culture critic. She is also a contributor to Screen Slate, and her writing has appeared in The New York Daily News, The Awl, Vice, and Gothamist, among other publications. Jeva lives in New York City. Follow her on Twitter.
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