June 8, 2005

Clinton feels readers’ pain . . .

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Former president and bestselling author Bill Clinton began touring for the paperback version of his autobiography yesterday, and was once again greeted by long lines of fans. As an Associated Press wire story by Mike Smith reports, people started lining up Tuesday night for the Wednesday book signing at a bookstore in Indianapolis (Smith does not identify the store), and “Clinton received an ovation when he appeared from behind a curtain.” Clinton said hoped the less expensive paperback version, which lists for $17.95, as opposed to the $35 hardcover, would make the book “accessible to a new round of readers.” He also joked with the crowd that the paperback version of the nearly 1,000-page-long book “would not hurt their shoulders.”

Dennis Johnson is the founder of MobyLives, and the co-founder and co-publisher of Melville House.

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