Clinton book sales cross one-million mark

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NEW YORK (AFP) — Sales of Bill Clinton's memoir, "My Life," which among other things offers his version of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, have crossed the one-million mark, the publishers said.

"This is an astonishing number for a work of non-fiction," said Knopf Publishing Group President Sonny Mehta. "In just eight days, we have sold over a million copies."

Given the continuing demand from retailers, Knopf said it had gone back to press for a third printing of 325,000 copies, bringing the total number of copies in print up to 2.6 million.

Pre-orders, most of them made over the Internet, had made "My Life" a bestseller even before it went on sale June 22.

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