It's not a best-seller yet, but cancelled O.J. book sells.In spite of the recall of O.J. Simpson's memoir/speculative rumination rumination /ru·mi·na·tion/ (roo?mi-na´shun) 1. the casting up of the food to be chewed thoroughly a second time, as in cattle. 2. and confessional, If I Did It, and cancellation of a televised interview on Fox, some copies slipped out to stores and registered sales on Nielsen BookScan, Publishers' Lunch, an online trade newsletter reported. After the book and interview were cancelled in November, a spokeswoman for HarperCollins, a division of News Corp., said that some copies had been shipped to stores but would be recalled and all copies destroyed. However, Publishers' Lunch stated Nielsen BookScan reported at least 100 copies of If I Did It sold across the country in the week ending December 3. Apparently, stores that got them sold a few here and there and reported the sales-14 copies in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , 12 in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , six in Philadelphia and so on. Several cities showed as few as two copies. Most were sold by large retail chains and online sellers. The Reuters news agency had reported earlier that the book attracted 50 bids on eBay in late November, topping $1,600 before being removed at HarperCollins's request. Richard Davies
Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. when the book was cancelled. "A book becomes collectible when it's hard to find, and this will become very, very collectible, surely worth four figures." As Publishers' Lunch put it: "That some copies sold instead of going back to Harper-Collins' warehouse for pulping is to be expected and perhaps the real surprise is that so few leaked out." Emma Rodgers, co-owner of Black Images Book Bazaar in Dallas, Texas, and one of the organizers of the African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. Booksellers Conference, told Black Issues Book Review that she knew of no black retailers who had received the book and were selling it. Meanwhile, News Corp. dismissed Judith Regan, who headed the imprint that created the book, amid a storm of nasty publicity in mid-December. Time magazine reported that the fights to the book might revert to Simpson in a year and the project could be resold for publication. |
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