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Central Ohio bookstores report health sales of Clinton autobiography.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, June, 2004

By Tami Abdollah, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jun. 23--Bill Clinton's autobiography, which hit store shelves yesterday, is being touted as this summer's Harry Potter.

But the former president will need a lot of Potter's magic to reach those sales heights.

Central Ohio bookstores reported healthy, but not stratospheric, sales of Clinton's My Life during its first day in stores yesterday.

At the Borders Bookstore on Sawmill Road, 20 people lined up outside waiting for the book when the store opened at 10 a.m., store manager Bryan Swann said.

Customers also waited for the book outside the Lennox Town Center Barnes & Noble. The book generated at least a 25 percent increase in foot...

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