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AP Exclusive: Clinton book has sold more than 300,000 copies

By HILLEL ITALIE about and experience, seeking office. Responses
AP National Writer from Hillary Clinton’s singu- to “What Happened,” as PEOPLE & ARTS
NEW YORK (AP) — Hill- lar perspective, the historic with so much of Clinton’s
ary Clinton’s “What Hap- events of the 2016 elec- political career, have var-
pened” had a big debut. tion,” Simon & Schuster ied widely. Some contend-
Clinton’s book, about her CEO Carolyn Reidy said in ed that it was time to “move
stunning presidential elec- a statement. “In its candor on” from the elections. Oth-
tion loss in 2016 to Donald and immediacy, ‘What ers countered that as the
Trump, sold more than Happened’ is satisfying first woman nominated by
300,000 copies in the com- that demand.” a major political party she
bined formats of hard- Clinton’s all-time opening had a vital story to tell and
cover, e-book and au- was for her memoir, “Living an audience eager to hear
dio, Simon & Schuster told History,” a 2003 release that about it. Reviewers have
The Associated Press on included her first extended called “What Happened”
Wednesday. comments on the affair be- everything from boring
The book’s hardcover sales tween her husband, Presi- and self-serving to reve-
of 168,000 were the high- Hillary Clinton waves to the audience at the Warner Theatre in dent Bill Clinton, and White latory and poignant.On
est opening for any nonfic- Washington, Monday, Sept. 18, 2017, for book tour event for her House intern Monica Le- Oct. 1, “What Happened”
new book “What Happened” hosted by the Politics and Prose
tion release in five years, Bookstore. winsky. “Living History” sold will debut at No. 1 on The
according to NPD Book- Associated Press more than 600,000 copies in New York Times’ best-seller
Scan, which tracks around Clinton’s book about her reviews, likely posted by its first week and came out lists for hardcover and for
85 percent of retail print years as secretary of state, commentators who had before the rise of e-books combined e-book and
sales. Mark Owen’s “No “Hard Choices,” which not read the book and lat- and before the collapse hardcover. According to
Easy Day,” a 2012 memoir came out in 2014 as she er pulled by Amazon. of the Borders superstore Simon & Schuster, the book
about the killing of Osama was preparing to launch “The remarkable response chain and the struggles of set a company record for
bin Laden, sold more than her run for president. “What to ‘What Happened’ indi- Barnes & Noble weakened weekly digital audio sales
250,000 copies in its first Happened” has been at or cates that, notwithstand- the hardcover market. and sold more e-book edi-
week. near the top of the Ama- ing all that has been writ- Clinton, a Democrat, had tions in a week than any
Sales for “What Hap- zon.com best-seller list ten and discussed over the promised to let her “guard nonfiction release from the
pened” far exceeded the since its publication Sept. last year, there is clearly down” for her first book to publisher since Walter Isaa-
first-week numbers of more 12 despite a suspicious ear- an overwhelming desire come out when she was cson’s biography of Steve
than 100,000 copies for ly wave of negative reader among readers to learn neither in government nor Jobs in 2011.q