Bob Woodward's Fear sells more than 750,000 in first day

The veteran Washington reporter’s unflattering portrait of Trump White House gets ninth printing to meet extraordinary demand from US and beyondDonald Trump may have dismissed Bob Woodward’s Fear as “a joke”, but readers are showing themselves to be keen to share in the comedy, with more than 750,000 copies of the White House exposé sold in American in just one day, according to its publisher.Fear, which “depicts a White House awash in dysfunction, where the Lord of the Flies is the closest thing to an owner’s manual”, according to a review in the Guardian, was published on 11 September. Simon & Schuster said yesterday that it sold a combined total of more than 750,000 copies of the book on its first day on sale in the US. The publisher has now ordered a ninth printing, bringing the total number of hardbacks in print in America to more than 1.15m. Related: Fear review: Bob Woodward's dragnet descends on Donald Trump Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2018-09-13 00:00:00 UTC ]

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[ Engadget | 2012-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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S&S acquires novel inspired by Meryl Streep

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[ The Bookseller | 2012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The Bookseller | 2012-01-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The Bookseller | 2011-11-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jobs biography sells 379,000 Stateside

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[ The Bookseller | 2011-10-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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