Hillary Clinton's Book Tour Watch: 'Hard Choices' Tops Barnes & Noble's Best Seller Chart

Thanks to Buzzfeed's Ruby Cramer, we have a verifiable record of first-week sales.  They are nowhere near as anemic as those in certain quarters have tried to characterize them  Wishful thinking on their part is my guess.  It was not possible that sales could be weak when the lines at the book signings were so long.  Now we have proof.  Thank you, Ruby!

Rock on, Hillary!

Hillary Clinton’s Book Tops Barnes & Noble Sales In First Week

Hard Choices sells 24,000 copies in its first week through B&N. posted on June 16, 2014, at 4:57 p.m.

Ruby Cramer BuzzFeed Staff

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attends a book signing for with her new memoir, Hard Choices, at a Costco in Arlington, Va., last Saturday. Olivier Douliery / Abaca Press

Hillary Clinton’s new memoir, Hard Choices, topped the Barnes & Noble best-seller list in its first week, according to the company’s Nielsen BookScan sales numbers released to publishers on Monday and obtained by BuzzFeed.

Barnes & Noble, the country’s largest retail bookseller, has sold just over 24,000 copies of the book since its release on June 10. Hard Choices debuted at No. 1 on the bookseller’s hardcover best-seller list, which includes fiction and nonfiction.

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