Jobs biog sells 379,000 copies Stateside

Written By: Philip Stone Publication Date: Wed, 02/11/2011 - 14:00 Walter Isaacson's biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs sold 379,000 copies in the US in its first week on bookshop shelves, BookScan US data has revealed. The $35 publication, published by Simon & Schuster in the US, outsold the next bestselling book of the week, John Grisham's The Litigators (Doubleday) by more than three copies to one, and outsold the second most popular non-fiction work, journalist Bill O'Reilly's Killing Lincoln (Henry Holt), by almost eight copies to one. read more Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2011-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]

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