Jaycee Dugard's Memoir Sold 175,000 Copies on First Day

Posted on August 1, 2011

Jaycee Dugard's memoir, A Stolen Life, sold 175,000 copies the day it went on sale, according to publisher Simon & Schuster. The combined sales figure include s print books, audiobooks, and nearly 100,000 ebooks. Dugard's memoir covers her the time period from her abduction in 1991 at age 11 to present day.

Simon & Schuster publisher Jonathan Karp says, "Clearly, the book has touched a nerve. The millions of people who read the excerpt in People magazine and watched Jaycee Dugard's interview with Diane Sawyer want to hear more of her voice, on the page, and the comments we're seeing online indicate that readers are finding inspiration in Jaycee Dugard's strength and resilience."