Hillary's Book Sells Like Hotcakes

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's book sold an estimated 200,000 copies on its first day on store shelves, her publisher said.

Simon & Schuster paid $8 million for the former first lady's White House memoirs, ordering 1 million copies for the first print run.

Simon & Schuster and CBSNews.com are both owned by Viacom.

Spokeswoman Victoria Meyer said Tuesday that the company will produce another 300,000 books on top of that figure in response to demand.

Barnes & Noble said the book sold more than 40,000 copies in the first 24 hours it was available, setting an in-house record for nonfiction.

The New York Times reported that independent bookstore owners were astonished at the sales pace.

"I was dumbstruck. There is no comparison. We sold about 120 yesterday, or about 10 an hour," Carla Cohen, co-owner of a Washington D.C. bookstore, told the newspaper. Cohen said selling 10 copies in a month is regarded as a success.

Clinton signed more than 1,000 copies of the book, "Living History," at a promotional event at a Barnes & Noble store in midtown Manhattan Monday, the first day the book was on sale.

Foreign rights to Clinton's book have already been sold in over a dozen countries.

Clinton's lawyer, Robert Barnett, said he also expected international sales to be "extremely high."