So let’s follow the bouncing OJ book:
New Book-Recalled Book-Scarce Book
1. Tremendous hype precedes the scheduled Nov. 30th release of “If I Did It” being published by Judith Regan’s ReganBooks, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers both owned by head Fox Robert Murdoch.
2. Tremendous public outcry forces the publisher to cancel publication.
3. The books that did make it to market begin making their way to the used book, auction world (or the resale market as the USA today article calls it) with lucrative results. USA Today story on this here.
Where will the book bounce next? Back in print from a different publisher? Signed copies from the author’s stash flooding the market? The dollar rack at your local bookstore? Or re-released as “I Only Wrote It, I Didn’t Do It” by Pablo Fenjves.
The suspense is killing me-
First of all O.J didn’t even write the book and there are probably some 400,000 copies that were printed before the books cancellation which pretty much guarantees that there will be plenty of copies floating around sooner or later.
Some of the quotes from the USA today article that give me the biggest chuckles:
Alibris CEO Martin Manley: “It’s a disgusting book, and we don’t want to sell it,” even if “people may have a right to sell it.” Well first of all copies where found for sale on Alibris and secondly if it wasn’t the source of such outrage Alibris would be trying to sell every last copy.
And the Ebay spokesperson who says the site doesn’t sell “murderabilia” yet a copy was sold on Ebay for $50
For a little background – my two earlier posts on this topic:
Post 1
Post 2
and the very well done recap of the fiasco by the Grumpy Old Bookman.
and of course:
If I Did It wikipedia.