Barbara Walters's New Memoir Audition Selling Well

May 14, 2008 -- Barbara Walters's new memoir Audition has sold over 250,000 copies in its first week, making it one of the strongest nonfiction hardcover debuts in recent years and putting Walters in league with other blockbuster authors such as Bill Clinton and Bob Woodward.

"This is a remarkable number for a work of nonfiction in what has been a flat retail environment," says Sonny Mehta, Chairman of the Knopf Publishing Group. "In just seven days, we have sold a quarter of a million copies of Audition. I have heard from booksellers across the country, and they are all enormously appreciative that Barbara's book is driving traffic into stores."

In light of the continuing demand from retailers, Knopf has gone back to press for eight printings, bringing the total number of copies in print up to one million.

Audition went on sale May 6, and it will debut as the number one book in the country on USA Today's bestseller list tomorrow, Thursday, May 15.

Alfred A. Knopf is the flagship imprint of the Knopf Publishing Group, which is a division of Random House, Inc., whose parent company is Bertelsmann AG, the international media company. For more information about Alfred A. Knopf, visit our website at aaknopf.com

Source: Random House, Inc.

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