Posted on 06/11/2003 5:06:12 AM PDT by NYC GOP Chick
Hil's book is read hot
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200,000 sold on first day
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"We are ecstatic, without question," said Victoria Meyer, executive director of publicity at Simon and Schuster. She said 300,000 copies of "Living History" have been ordered printed on top of the initial run of 1 million. Now ranked second on Amazon.com's best-seller list, the New York Democrat's story threatens to do to No. 1 seller Harry Potter what Lord Voldemort could not - knock him off. Barnes & Noble reported selling 40,000 editions of Clinton's tell-all at its 630 stores and Web site. "We expect Hillary Clinton's 'Living History' to be Barnes & Noble's best-selling nonfiction title for the year," spokeswoman Carolyn Brown said. Ann Binkley, spokeswoman for Waldenbooks and Borders Books & Music, said the stores sold about 35,000 copies Monday. "The book obviously has legs. ... We're absolutely thrilled about first-day sales," she said. Beyond the first and second printings totaling 1.3 million, Clinton's publisher anticipates ordering even more copies of the 562-page memoir. On Capitol Hill, where much of the action of her book takes place, reaction was mixed. Sens. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and Elizabeth Dole (R-N.C.) said they were excited to read about Clinton's version of her turbulent White House years. Asked whether he'd read it, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) laughed and said, "Yeah, I will, as a matter of fact." Others were less enthusiastic, such as Sen. George Allen (R-Va.), who "wouldn't spend a penny" to get Clinton's take on the Monica Lewinsky scandal. "I lived it. I don't have to read it," snapped House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.). Rep. Steve Buyer (R-Ind.) and former Reps. Bob Barr (R-Ga.) and James Rogan (R-Calif.) - House impeachment managers who prosecuted President Bill Clinton in 1998 - bristled over the book's description of their efforts as a "group tirade denouncing my husband." "Her book attempts to re-create a history to suit her image as the forever victim," Buyer said. |
And of course, some day the book is likely to be filed in "fiction" rather than non-fiction", so it would no longer have the record for first day non-fiction sales.
Will *Bill read it?
What else do ghostwriters have to draw from?
At my house, Hil's book is read not.
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