Quote of the day - Publish, and be...?

It's not actually a question, but I sample from the Ch4 Snowmail for today to make it so:

'...Who makes money out of these biographies, given that hardly anyone ever buys them. Witness David Blunkett's great tome, for which hundreds of thousands were paid by the publisher and which 4,000 people bothered to buy'?

Darn good question, though. Just doesn't add up. Mind you, what about our country, and especially its 'leadership', does these days?