Valorum & Gunray Bracket Ends of Book Sales

MID-RIM NODE – TriPlanetary Press has a hit and a bomb on their hands this season. Published on the same date two months ago, the separate biographies of Trade Federation Viceroy Nute Gunray and former Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum have met with wild reader enthusiasm and resounding disinterest, respectively. The unauthorized and provocative Gunray tell-all, Gunray On Top, written by his alleged mistress Lora Besh, has been in the top ten bestsellers for 14 weeks. Conversely, Valorum’s staid autobiography, Holding Back the Tide, has yet to break into the top 100. “I don’t know — I guess I’m just not that interested in Valorum right now,” says a self-described avid reader on TriPlanetary’s review list. “Maybe, like, after he dies?”