Here's a question that no one will answer: how many of these "advance" sales are bulk purchases by Democratic/liberal organizations? As Bill O'Reilly documented on his TV and radio shows, a substantial portion of Hillary's book "sales" were basically freebies. The DNC and other lib groups bought large quantities of her book, then gave them away to donors, or simply stored them in warehouses. Under the fuzzy accounting system used by the publishing industry, these were still counted as "sales." I'm sure the left is employing similar tactics to inflate sales of Stain Boy's tome, and keep it at the top of the NYT best-seller list. BTW, A.C. Nielsen has another system for tracking book sales, based on the actual number scanned at store cash registers. It will be interesting to see how actual in-store sales of Clinton's book stack up...
Actually I wondered if the "advanced" sales were merely orders by retailers. Also if this is a world wide figure, that makes much more sense. How many people in France can actually read?
Our bookstores in Norman that are affiliated with chains were required to order so many books of Hillary's and now Bill's. These are phoney figures -- bet they will be gifts at the convention meaning the people will have an extra fee added to their convention tab. :)