Hillary Clinton’s new book “What Happened” saw brisk sales in its first week, selling 300,000 copies and breaking records for first-week audiobook sales.
The book aims to explain why Clinton lost the 2016 presidential election, which she had been widely expected to win, to Donald Trump despite his numerous gaffes and negative reporting by the press.
Publisher Simon & Schuster has already printed additional copies three times, with more than 800,000 copies now in print, Time reported. The title is also rising up the ranks of Amazon best-sellers.
“Notwithstanding all that has been written and discussed over the last year, there is clearly an overwhelming desire among readers to learn about and experience, from Hillary Clinton’s singular perspective, the historic events of the 2016 election,” Simon & Schuster President and CEO Carolyn Reidy said, Time reported.
The book has outperformed Clinton’s last book covering her time as Secretary of State. It did not match opening sales for her memoir, "Living History," which included discussion of President Bill Clinton’s affair with intern Monica Lewinsky in the White House.
Critics have called "What Happened" everything from boring and self-serving to revelatory and poignant.
Twitter users were split in their reactions to the book.