Reader interest in the inner workings of the Trump White House is showing no signs of fading.
Bob Woodward’s new book “Fear: Trump in the White House” sold more than 750,000 copies through Tuesday, its first day on sale, according to publisher Simon & Schuster. Those sales included preorders, first day sales of print books, e-books and audiobooks, Simon & Schuster said, adding that the title’s preorder sales were the largest in the publishing house’s history.
Simon & Schuster, which is owned by CBS Corp.
CBS, -0.47% , also said that it has ordered a ninth printing, which will bring the total number of hardcovers in print to more than 1.15 million. It is Simon & Schuster’s biggest printing of the year to this point, said a spokesman.
Woodward’s book ranks No. 1 on both Amazon.com
AMZN, +0.14% and BarnesandNoble.com. On Wednesday, Barnes & Noble Inc.
BKS, +0.00% said the book had generated “the fastest sales for an adult title since Harper Lee’s ’Go Set a Watchman’ was released in July 2015.”
Bob Woodward’s new Trump book ‘Fear’ posts huge sales
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