‘Exhausted’ readers shun celebrity memoirs as autobiography sales falls

Nielsen BookScan says sales of autobiographies and memoirs are down almost 4% compared with 2013



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Readers have grown tired of the slew of celebrity memoirs, with titles by Stephen Fry, Graham Norton and John Cleese selling disappointing numbers, according to publishing industry experts.

Titles by Cleese and Fry sold about 60,000 copies each, according to Nielsen BookScan, which found that sales in the autobiographies and memoirs genre were down almost 4% compared with 2013.

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