Hillary Clinton’s book is a smash hit.
Clinton’s campaign memoir, What Happened, sold 300,000 copies in its first week. That total includes hardcover, e-books and audio books, according to the Associated Press.
The 168,000 hardcover book sales was the most since Mark Owen’s No Easy Day, a memoir about killing Osama bin Laden, sold 250,000 copies in its first week.
The AP reported Clinton’s first week topped her previous book, Hard Choices, which was a memoir about her time as secretary of state. However, it sold only half as much in the first week as her book Living History, which was relased in 2003 and included her thoughts on her husband’s affair with Monica Lewinsky.
Simon & Schuster, the company that published Clinton’s book, said What Happened set a company record for weekly digital audio sales and sold more e-book copies in one week than any non-fiction release since a biography of Steve Jobs in 2011.
