Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Kim Kardashian's Selfish book snapped up by thousands


Collected selfies from reality star hailed both as ‘Catcher in the Rye of the Instagram generation’ and ‘an anthology of what is wrong with American culture’
Selfie publishing ... Kim Kardashian.
Kim Kardashian. Photograph: Daniel Vorley/Getty Images
Whether it is “a nail in the coffin for artistic photography” or “strangely liberating”, Kim Kardashian’s collection of hundreds of selfies, Selfish, has climbed in to the bestseller charts on both sides of the Atlantic after just five days on sale.

The title, which runs to more than 350 pages of images of the American celebrity, famous for her reality television show Keeping Up with the Kardashians, was released on 5 May by leading art publisher Rizzoli. It sold 1,940 copies in the UK in the week to 9 May, according to book sales monitor Nielsen BookScan, putting it in seventh place in the hardback non-fiction charts and outselling new novels by major writers including James Patterson, Mark Billingham, David Baldacci and Jo Nesbo.

In the US, its sales to date run to just under 14,000 copies, reported trade magazine Publishers Weekly, putting it in 13th place in the adult non-fiction list. Its American fans include the writer Lena Dunham, who published her own “selfie with selfish”, adding: “#yeahiboughtit (I support experiments in female identity exploration/am a student of pop culture/will not be shamed)”.
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