Some lucky booksellers must have made a bundle by getting their hands on a few copies of the orphaned O.J. Simpson book, If I Did It. According to this GalleyCat article, about 100 copies were sold last week, many of them on Amazon.
Looks like they’re all gone now, and Amazon even deleted the cover image.
Someone has a copy on ABE for $4,200. Give me a break!
I have a prediction, though: In two years this book will be selling for 1 cent on Marketplace. This inventory is going to be sold to another publisher who’s not afraid of a PR backlash. I’m not defending it, I’m just predicting that these books will be sold eventually, and once the public gets their fill, the books will be worth about as much as the other O.J. trial books, like this one and this one.
If I sold it
Looks like they’re all gone now, and Amazon even deleted the cover image.
Someone has a copy on ABE for $4,200. Give me a break!
I have a prediction, though: In two years this book will be selling for 1 cent on Marketplace. This inventory is going to be sold to another publisher who’s not afraid of a PR backlash. I’m not defending it, I’m just predicting that these books will be sold eventually, and once the public gets their fill, the books will be worth about as much as the other O.J. trial books, like this one and this one.
Here’s a fascinating article about how HarperCollins got bookstores to order the new O.J. book in the first place, it’s called “blind” selling.
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