SIMPSON BOOK WILL NOW BE STOCKED AT U.S. CHAIN
LATEST: American bookstore Barnes & Noble has overturned its decision not to stock O.J. SIMPSON’s hypothetical book about the murder of his ex-wife NICOLE BROWN SIMPSON and her friend RONALD GOLDMAN in its shops.
Last week (22Aug07), the U.S. chain announced it would only be selling the American football star’s controversial If I Did it online, due to a lack of demand and not because of the book’s content.
But Barnes & Noble has now changed its position.
Spokeswoman Mary Ellen Keating says, "We’ve been monitoring the pre-orders and customer requests and have concluded that enough customers have expressed interest in buying the book to warrant stocking in our stores.
"We do not intend to promote the book, but we will stock it in our stores because our customers are asking for it." Simpson was famously acquitted in 1995 of the 1994 murders of Brown Simpson and Goldman, but was found liable for their deaths in a civil trial in 1996.
The rights of If I Did It were taken away from the star earlier this year (07) and were awarded to Goldman’s family to help pay off the $38 million (£19 million) owed to them by Simpson.
Goldman’s family have since signed a deal to publish the tome with Beaufort Books - to the objections of Brown Simpson’s sister Denise Brown, who is disgusted that her sibling’s children Sydney and Justin "will have to be subjected to this step by step manual on how their mother and her friend Ron were murdered".
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