Simpson Arrests Boosts Book Sales

Posted on September 19, 2007

O.J. Simpson's arrest for armed robbery in Las Vegas has had a fantastic effect on the book sales of his infamous faux memoir, If I Did It: sales are booming. Simpson's charges include assault and kidnapping. Publishers Weekly reports that Beaufort Books has gone back to press for another 50,000 copies.

Beaufort Books publisher Eric Kampmann told the AP, "The arrest brought the whole question of O.J. and the law back into everybody's consciousness."

We cannot believe that we're going to be subjected to another O.J. Simpson criminal trial! What is wrong with this guy, anyway? Could it be that escaping justice once made him even cockier, to the point where he thought it would be ok to conduct his own "sting" operation to get some sports memorabilia back at the point of a gun?

If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer is now #2 on Amazon.com's bestseller list today. The book is written by the Goldman family and contains and afterword by Dominick Dunne.