After a strong start — selling 27,000 copies in its first week of release, according to Nielsen BookScan — Edward Klein‘s The Truth About Hillary has slowed down considerably, and the author hasn’t been making many public appearances except on friendly conservative media. In an in-depth analysis for The Book Standard, Rachel Deahl observes that “questionable explorations into the former First Lady and New York Senator’s private life have turned off critics, pundits and now, apparently, book-buyers.” Deahl documents some of that reaction — including more BookScan numbers and details of Klein’s last-minute withdrawal from some live interviews — to conclude, as the headline to her piece puts it, that “Klein’s Trash Tome’s Trajectory Suggests There Is Such a Thing as Bad Publicity, After All.”