Several news reports in advance of Wednesday’s full Nielsen Bookscan count, offer premature judgments about the opening sales figures for Hillary Clinton’s HARD CHOICES. BuzzFeed reports, based on the Barnes & Noble sales feed managed by Bookscan, that the book topped Barnes & Noble’s bestseller list with “just over 24,000 hardcover copies sold” in its first week on sale, 319 copies ahead of Diana Gabaldon’s novel WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART’S BLOOD. From that data point the piece concludes “the numbers do indicate that Hard Choices has not performed as well in its first week as Clinton’s first memoir, LIVING HISTORY, did […]
