Tomorrow, it so happens, is the official publication date of "A Day in the Life of the United States Armed Forces," a $40 coffee-table book with what the publisher says is an initial print run of 175,000.
Kean's book, which is getting an initial print run of 75,000 copies, promises to be this summer's must-read nonfiction book.
US publisher Harper is planning an initial print run of two million copies.
Her first book "Don't Lose Your Mind, Lose Your Weight" (Random House, 2009) has sold over 200,000 copies and her second book was given an initial print run of 75,000.
His book In the Spirit of Crazy Horse (1983), about the conflict between federal agents and the American Indian Movement at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in 1973, was the subject of a prolonged libel suit that blocked all but an initial printing and was not settled until 1990; in 1991 the book was republished.
A new official biography was released, with an initial print run of one million copies, and Stalin was given the Order of Lenin, then the country's highest honor.
The fourth installment of the Twilight series, Breaking Dawn, was released with an initial print run of 3.7 million copies.
The book, her first, is due for release 17 November, with an initial printing of 1.5m copies.
The cookbook, with an initial printing of 8,000 copies, was financed through the Community Fund for Manhattan, a nonprofit group run by the borough president's office, at a cost of about $54,000.
After an initial printing of 175,000 copies earlier this month, there are now 200,000 copies in print.
