It was derided as a cheap publishing stunt, a book that major publishers wouldn’t touch and booksellers vowed to ignore. But four weeks after its release, “If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer,” a book penned by O.J. Simpson and co-writer Pablo Fenjves, is a fixture on best-seller lists.
The book, which was wrested away from Simpson by the family of Ron Goldman in a bankruptcy court proceeding and published in September, has sold 68,000 copies, according to Nielsen BookScan, which tracks about 70 percent of U.S. book sales. Eric Kampmann, of Beaufort Books, who published the title, suggests that the actual sales figure might be a lot higher, more in the range of 100,000 to 120,000 copies, based on his company’s internal data.
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Personals was compiled by Kim Profant from Tribune news services and staff reports.
