HarperCollins Publishers is going back to press for an additional 100,000 run, bringing the total number of hard-covers in print to 1.6 million copies.- JP
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Three major booksellers declined to release sales figures for “Going Rogue” on Tuesday. However, a spokeswoman for Amazon.com Inc.’s Web site noted in an email that the title “is already one of our bestselling nonfiction books of 2009.” At 2:40 p.m., the book ranked No. 1 on Amazon’s list of best sellers, with six customer reviews and 393 customer discussions. Amazon is selling the book for $14.50, a 50% discount from its $28.99 retail price
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Strong Sales Spark Second Printing of Going Rogue
As we mentioned Friday, Sarah Palin's publisher HarperCollins has ordered a second printing of Going Rogue. What we didn't know at the time was how many new copies would be printed in the second run. At The Wall Street Journal, Susan Davis has our answer on Washington Wire:
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It's strange, first day sales figures for Bill Clinton's book, My Life, were released the very next day. Wonder what the hold up is releaseing the figures for Going Rogue. After all, it only takes having a subscription to Nielsen's Bookscan which accounts for about 75 percent of all book sales. The cost of the subscription is very high, so it's not commonly available, but publishers have it, and even a lot of authors pay for this service to track not only their own sales, but the sales of rival authors.
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