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Kim Kardashians coffee table book Selfish is a total financial & sales failure

NO REALLY, why does her face look like this? I swear, she looks just like a cat. If you gave a cat a buttload of Botox and a shovel-full of makeup. Anyway, you know how Kim Kardashian is the queen of selfies (see above)? She’s so selfie-obsessed that she created a coffee-table book full of selfies. We had seen some of the photos before, but most were not-previously published. The book was called Selfish. And guess what? Even though it got mediocre-to-good reviews (no joke), the book bombed:

Kim Kardashian has 41 million Instagram followers, but RadarOnline.com has learned that her online popularity didn’t translate into huge sales for her book of selfies, Selfish. The book was released to much fanfare and social media promotion in May, and as of mid-July Kardashian was still promoting the book via Instagram posts. But reps for Nielsen Bookscan told Radar exclusively that so far, it has only sold 32,000 copies. That represents just 0.8% of Kardashian’s Instagram fans. (*Nielsen BookScan’s U.S. Consumer Market Panel currently covers approximately 85% of the print book market and continues to grow.)

What’s more, the book is a critical flop online. Sitting at 1,607 in books, it’s ranked only 2.5 stars after 661 customer reviews. And those reviews have been scathing.

“A poor tree died for this!” Tracy Young wrote. User Angela called it a “waste of money!”

At least, however, it didn’t sell as badly as Kendall and Kylie Jenner’s sic-fi novel, Rebels: City of Indra. As Radar reported, that book sold just 13,000 copies in its first few months on sale. In comparison, Lauren Conrad‘s novel L.A. Candy reportedly sold 500,000 copies in its first year.

[From Radar]

The reason why Lauren Conrad’s books sell is because LC has invested in ghostwriters who know what they’re doing. The Kardashian-Jenner clan just sort of half-asses most of their side projects. As for Kim’s sad little sales record… to be fair to her (I KNOW), it was a coffee-table book, not a novel or something like that. I don’t think anyone in publishing really expected Selfish to fly off the shelves. That being said, they probably expected Selfish to sell better than it did. I wonder why no one really cared? Is it because we can see Kim’s self-exploitative selfies for free every day?

Here are some photos of Kim at the airport on Monday. YAY BUTT SHOTS!!! How many pairs of Spanx do you think she’s wearing here?

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Photos courtesy of Instagram, Fame/Flynet.

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