Barnes & Noble will stock O.J.’s new book
NEW YORK (AP) — 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 told The Associated Press on Thursday that it would indeed carry the book.
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.”
For days Simpson’s book has been in the top 100 on Barnes & Noble.com and at one point even topped the best-seller list. “If I Did It” has also entered the top 100 on Amazon.com.
Simpson’s ghostwritten, hypothetical story of how he would have murdered Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman was originally scheduled to come out last November, but HarperCollins pulled the book in response to near-universal protests.
Over the summer, a federal bankruptcy judge awarded rights to the book to Goldman’s family to help satisfy a $38 million wrongful death judgment against Simpson.