Former fringe Oregon gubernatorial candidate Reed Christensen admitted Friday that his sales of his self-published book titled “Save the Kid!: How the Arrest of a January 6th Protester Revealed a Moral Compass That Can Save America,” netted him just $50 in royalties from the sales at $11.95 per paperback or $4.95 digital Kindle reader copy on Amazon, listed since January 18th, 2022.
“This book tells the first person account of a 62 year old electrical engineer, married for forty years, father of five, and veteran who ended up on the FBI’s Most Wanted list, was arrested on his way to church, and had his property raided by fifteen heavily armed agents for his actions protesting the corrupted election at the January 6th Stop the Steal rally in Washington DC,” says the description.
The Amazon page shows 14 verified reviews for the tome, averaging 4.5/5 stars, but doesn’t differentiate between buyers of the physical or the digital copy, so we don’t have a read on how much Christensen’s cut was from the sales. Either way, the opportunity cost per man-hour spent writing the book and getting it published likely being mere fractions of cents in profit are the least of Christensen’s problems as the admission of his book’s abysmal sales came just minutes before US District Court Judge Royce Lamberth sentenced Christensen to serve 46 months in prison for assaulting police officers during the January 6th, 2021 MAGA insurrection at the US Capitol.