NEW YORK - Reviews have been discouraging and conservatives are on the attack, but booksellers still expect the best as they brace for Tuesday's release of Bill Clinton (news - web sites)'s "My Life," the year's most anticipated nonfiction book.
"It's like adult Harry Potter (news - web sites) mania. We haven't seen anything like this since J.K. Rowling (news - web sites) came here," said Michael Link, a bookseller for Politics & Prose, a Washington-based store that will stay open late Monday night and begin selling "My Life" at midnight Tuesday.
Alfred A. Knopf has given the former president's memoirs a first printing of 1.5 million.
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Sixteen franchises of the Borders superstore chain will stay open past midnight. Barnes & Noble also will begin selling "My Life" at midnight, at one franchise each in New York and Washington.
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