Barnes & Noble to sell ‘If I Did It’
Barnes & Noble Inc. has changed its mind about the new O.J. Simpson book.
After saying it would not stock copies of “If I Did It” in its stores, citing lack of customer demand, the chain said Thursday that it would indeed carry the book, due out Sept. 13.
Since the initial decision Aug. 21 against stocking the book but selling it online, Barnes & Noble spokeswoman Mary Ellen Keating said: “We’ve been monitoring the pre-orders and customer requests and have concluded that enough customers have expressed interest in buying the book to warrant stocking it in our stores. We do not intend to promote the book, but we will stock it in our stores because our customers are asking for it.”
For days Simpson’s book has been in the top 100 on Barnes & Noble.com.
“If I Did It” is Simpson’s ghostwritten, hypothetical story of how he would have murdered Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
A federal bankruptcy judge awarded rights to the book to Goldman’s family to help satisfy a $38 million wrongful death judgment against Simpson.
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