Retailers consist of small and large for-profit businesses that sell products directly to consumers. To realize a profit, retailers search for products that coincide with their business objectives and find suppliers with the most competitive pricing. Generally, a retailer can buy small quantities of an item from a distributor or a wholesaler.
Fire and Fury sells half a million copies. Combined sales of hardcover, e-book and audio versions of Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury now top 500,000. Associated Press January 18, 2018 11:41am A company that tracks retail book sales says Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury sold more than 190,000 hardcover copies last week.
Independent bookstores in the city may have copies of Fire and Fury available by next week. Becky Matheson, a book seller at Joseph Fox Bookshop, at 1724 Sansom St., said the store is taking hold requests from customers and is expecting a shipment of the book to arrive Monday. An employee at Head House Books, 619 S.