Barnes and Noble Change their mind, will stock O.J.'s
book 
Friday, August
31st, 2007
Barnes & Noble had previously said they would not stock
copies of the O.J. Simpson Book, "If I Did It," in their stores, but
yesterday told the Associated Press that they've changed their
mind. They are both selling it online and stocking on shelves at a
store near you.
Spokeswoman Mary Ellen Keating says, "We've been
monitoring the pre-orders and the customer requests and have concluded
that enough customers have expressed interest in buying the book to
warrant stocking it in our stores. We do not intend to promote the
book, but we will stock it in our stores because customers are asking
for it."]
Uh...isn't the press release in itself promoting
it?
The book, "If I Did It," has been in the top 100 on Barnes
& Noble online, and has even topped the best-seller list. When
news of the book first was released, people were outraged, but over the
summer a federal bankruptcy judge awarded the rights to the profits from
the book to Goldman's family, to go towards the $38 million wrongful
death judgment against O.J. The book will be published on
September 13 by Beaufort Books.
"If I Did It" is supposedly a
hyphothetical account of what would have transpired, had O.J. committed
the killings - he stil claims he didn't. He has maintained his
innocence in the 1994 killings of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman,
whose murders he was acquitted for in 1995, and has disowned the
book. The book was written by a ghostwriter, Pablo Fenjves, who
insists the book was based on discussions with Simpson.
"O.J.
read the book, his book, several times. I made every change he
asked for, and he signed off on it," Fenjves told Reuters this
month. "The whole book, the whole idea for a book, originated with
O.J. Simpson and a couple of his handlers." He spent weeks, he
said, interviewing O.J. for the book in person and on the phone, and
O.J. revised all drafts.
"And I told O.J., as I have told a
dozen-plus other people I've ghost-written books for, 'Nobody sees this
book until you're happy with it.' And that's exactly what
happened."
The family of Nicole Brown still objects to its
publishing.
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