Million copy print run for Hillary Clinton book

AFTER laying out a seven-figure advance for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s memoirs, her publishers are counting on seven-figure sales.

The account of her years in the White House will have a first printing of one million copies, her lawyer said.

The 576-page book, entitled "Living History," is scheduled for release on June 9. An audio version, read by Clinton, will be released the same day. "Only a small handful of books have a 1-million-copy first printing, and I cannot think of another nonfiction book in recent history that has had that large a first printing," Robert Barnett, Clinton's lawyer, said.

The first lady-turned senator was paid an $8 million advance by Simon & Schuster. Foreign rights have already been sold in 16 countries, from South America to Europe to Asia.

The list price for the book, according to online seller amazon.com, is $28. When she arrived at the White House with Bill Clinton in 1993, it was trumpeted as a true political partnership. That personal and political partnership was put to the test by the Lewinsky scandal that almost forced Mr Clinton out of office. But Mrs Clinton emerged looking strong perhaps too strong for the liking of some voters who see her as cold and calculating. The book will be billed as a "complete and candid" accounting of her years in the White House.