Interestingly enough, GWB’s book was totally GONE from our local Smith’s today; at least as far as I could see! There were 5 or 6 copies still left early yesterday. But totally gone! I thought, “Now that’s some book!”! True, UT was definitely Pres. Bush country. It could be Pres. Palin country too some day also, though!
President Bush's memoir, Decision Points, is still the #1 non-fiction book in the nation for the reporting week ending 12/19/10. It tops both The New York Times and Amazon.com non-fiction books lists for the fourth week in a row. In fact, it's still #1 overall on Amazon.
Just for contrast, Sarah Palin's book, America By Heart, opened at #2 on the NYT list last week and has fallen to #5 this week. It is #41 overall on Amazon.
I have been unable to find recent sales figures for Decision Points, but Random House had an initial print run of 1.5 million copies and raised that to 1.85 million within a week of the book's release. Now, four weeks into it's release and with Christmas buying season in full swing, the book is likely to go over 2 million in sales fairly soon. In this economy, that's amazing.