Hillary Clinton's book "What Happened" debuted to higher sales...

[charlyvi]

than any nonfiction hardcover since 2012.


Hillary Clinton’s new book, What Happened, has had an incredibly high-performing first week of sales, reports Publishers Weekly.

According to sales figures from Nielsen BookScan, which tracks 85 percent of book sales across the country (excluding digital and audio sales), Clinton has sold 167,000 hardcover copies of What Happened since it came out on September 12. Her publisher Simon & Schuster says that when you account for ebook and audiobook sales, Clinton’s sales numbers surpass 300,000 copies.

Either way, it’s a major debut. According to ABC News, the last hardcover nonfiction book to achieve such an impressive first week in sales was Mark Owen's No Easy Day, a 2012 memoir about the killing of Osama bin Laden, which sold more than 250,000 copies the week it was released.

This opening does not quite match the opening of Clinton’s 2003 memoir Living History, which according to Publisher’s Weekly sold 438,000 hardcover copies in its first week — perhaps in part because it discussed the Monica Lewinsky affair and book-buyers love a sex scandal, but probably mostly because it came out before ebooks existed, and all hardcover books sold more back then.

"The remarkable response to What Happened indicates that, notwithstanding all that has been written and discussed over the last year, there is clearly an overwhelming desire among readers to learn about and experience, from Hillary Clinton's singular perspective, the historic events of the 2016 election," said Simon & Schuster CEO Carolyn Reidy in a statement. "In its candor and immediacy, What Happened is satisfying that demand

https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/9/20/16339516/hillary-clinton-what-happened-best-hardcover-nonfiction-since-2012

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1. Someone should let President Trump know that

He seems particularly obsessed with ratings and achievements and suchlike. I'm sure this tidbit would be of significant interest to him.

[leftofcool]

2. He'd call it fake news

[Arkansas Granny]

7. Grea idea!

[FakeNoose]

3. Amazon has been taking pre-orders since last month

I'm not surprised at the high sales numbers.

On Amazon Dot Com people were giving Hillary's book bad reviews and low ratings, before the book was even released. Don't believe any of the 1 and 2 star reviews on Amazon, they're all written by rightwing a-holes.

[SunSeeker]

13. Love that gif!

[aikoaiko]

4. Good for Hillary.

[lunamagica]

5. I'm not surprised by this at all. People want to know what happened, and want to hear from her

I'm happy the book is doing so well!

[CherokeeFiddle]

6. Of course

Everyone wants to know what her thoughts are and she hasn't discussed it much at all previously

[Honeycombe8]

8. The fake negative reviews didn't do what they had hoped, I guess. Great news! nt

[BigmanPigman]

9. She was good on Colbert last night and explained that one thing

she hopes her book will do is to be used as a warning that the Russians are still doing this and nothing is being done to stop them!

[Gothmog]

10. I look forward to buying this book

[ehrnst]

11. Dayum. One week! I guess people don't really want her to shut up after all. (nt)

[GoCubsGo]

12. Fake news.

Nobody cares what she has to say.