Despite an Aug. 3 report that Nielsen Bookscan has logged sales of just 32,000 copies of Kim Kardashian’s 352-page selfie book, Selfish, the book publisher tells Us Weekly that sales are much higher.
“The Bookscan number of 30K floating around is not inaccurate but it represents a very small segment of our sales overall, which are very strong in non-bookstore specialty retailers, and international sales, neither of which report to Bookscan,” Pam Sommers, Executive Director of Publicity at Rizzoli, tells Us Weekly in a statement. “The book is, in fact, a significant success story as a benchmark of the phenomenon of self-portrait in the digital age.”
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