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A salesperson takes money to ring up a copy of the book “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House” by Michael Wolff at a Barnes & Noble store.
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If early sales of Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury” are any indication, the public appetite for dirt on the Trump presidency is positively Hoover-like — including in Hawaii.
The controversial White House tell-all, which was released four days early despite threats of legal action by Trump’s lawyers, quickly became the No. 1 seller on all of the major online bookseller sites, claiming the top three spots on Amazon’s best-seller list with its Kindle, hardcover and audio editions, respectively.
At Powell’s Books, the nation’s largest independent bookstore, a full shipment of 40 copies of the book sold out within five minutes of the store opening in Portland, Ore., on Friday.
The book did comparably swift business in Hawaii.
Without the benefit of advance sales, all 30 copies of the book sold out in a few hours at Barnes & Noble Booksellers in Ala Moana Center. A manager at the store said reservations were being taken for the next shipment.
There was little action at BookEnds in Kailua, but only because the entire first shipment of books was already reserved by eager readers.
