the memoir market

Did the Same 38,000 Women Buy These Books?

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The market for readers interested in the lives of funny, famous women in television has been defined and it’s 38,000. That’s the number of copies Tina Fey sold of her memoir Bossypants during its first week, echoed exactly by Lena Dunham’s Not That Kind of Girl, and followed by Amy Poehler’s Yes Please at 37,000. Did you read Not That Kind of Yes Please Girl while simultaneously watching 30 Rock reruns in background? Cool, us too.

Did the Same 38,000 Women Buy These Books?