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Bestseller: “Catcher in the Rye” Jumps to Number 10 on Amazon

By Roger Friedman

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UPDATE: Toronto Film Festival just announced there will be a special screening of “Salinger” tomorrow, Sept 5th, at 8pm– in direct competition with the fest’s opening night, I might add.

Earlier: All the news about J.D. Salinger– Nazi first wife, new books coming in 2015, etc– has sparked sales on amazon.com and Barnes & Noble’s website. “The Catcher in the Rye,” first published in 1951, is number 10 on amazon and number 30 on bn.com. The new “Salinger” book by Shane Salerno and David Shields is number 66 on amazon and number 7 on bn.com. That’s all pretty amazing. But the “Salinger” documentary The-Catcher-in-the-Ryeis released  Friday to theaters. And on Sunday, Jean Miller, who was the 14 year old girl who inspired “Esme,” a Salinger character, appeared on “CBS Sunday Morning.” That show really sells books. Are all the people buying “Catcher” just phonies? Probably. We’re lousy with ’em, goddammit.

PS Salinger is not available on Kindle or iBooks, no ebooks whatsoever. Of course.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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