Simon & Schuster, the book’s publisher, said Wednesday that it has sold more than 780,000 copies so far.
The total included hard copies, e-books, audiobooks plus “consumer orders that have yet to be met due to extraordinary demand,” the editor said.
Most authors are fortunate to sell tens of thousands of copies. Selling hundreds of thousands of copies in a week is extremely rare.
The Trump Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Bolton ahead of the book’s release on June 23, sparking even more interest in “The Room Where It Happened.”
Simon & Schuster reportedly paid around $ 2 million for the book’s rights. The sales figures for the first week certainly justify the great salary.
“The Room Where It Happened” sold more copies in its first week than James Comey’s “A Higher Loyalty”, according to sales totals.
There are several ways to calculate numbers, making exact comparisons difficult, but Bolton’s book is in the same sales league as Bob Woodward’s “Fear” and Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury”.
Like those books, Bolton’s memoirs will debut at # 1 on best-seller lists compiled by newspapers like The New York Times and USA Today.
Jonathan Karp, the publisher’s CEO, said the company also expects the book to be “the first of the best-seller lists in the UK, Australia and Canada.”
Simon & Schuster, seeking to further capitalize on the interest, announced Wednesday that it has “ordered an 11th print of the book which, when complete, will raise the number of print copies to one million.”
“The Room Where It Happened” is currently number 4 on Amazon’s dynamic bestseller list. Title No. 1 is another revelation from Trump that has yet to come to light: “Too Much and Never Enough of Mary Trump: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.”
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