Wednesday, November 12, 2003

Oops: Lynch's story not generating enough cash  

Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage: "Despite a media blitz, the biography of America's best-known soldier from the Iraq war, Jessica Lynch, appeared unlikely on Tuesday to translate into big cash as the first day of sales fell short of expectations.
After days of magazine covers, TV movies, tabloid tales and television interviews, first-day sales of her authorized biography, 'I Am a Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story,' fell well short of other high-profile books like Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's memoir, which had buyers lining up around the block. "