Reply #11: record sales predicted. ha ha, drudgie!

[gauguin57]

http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CLINTON_BOOK?SITE=APWEB&SEC...

Booksellers Predict Record Clinton Sales

"NEW YORK (AP) -- Booksellers on Wednesday predicted record nonfiction sales for the debut of Bill Clinton's autobiography as the former president told television interviewers he did not immediately come clean about the Monica Lewinsky affair because he thought he'd lose office.

"... "My Life" was released throughout the United States with a first printing of 1.5 million. Barnes & Noble had estimated that between 90,000 and 100,000 copies would sell Tuesday in the United States, a record debut for a nonfiction book. On Wednesday, Borders also reported a record first day for nonfiction, with worldwide sales topping 50,000, more than double the previous high, for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's "Living History." ...

"... In Ireland, which the ex-president still visits yearly for golf and lucrative speaking engagements, Dubliners lauded Clinton as a driving force behind the country's 1990s economic boom and the peace process in neighboring Northern Ireland.

"Clinton was a charmer, whereas Bush is just scary," said Pat Huxtable, a psychotherapist thumbing through a copy of "My Life" in a Dublin bookstore. ..."