Yet another Hills book update
Masako book "selling very well" after ban, goes the article covering this development that nobody could possibly have seen coming.
The Australian author of a controversial book about Japan's royal family said yesterday that Tokyo's attempts to censor his work had backfired spectacularly and made it more popular than Harry Potter. . . .Mr Hills said the furore had fuelled interest in the book, which was outselling pre-orders of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows and the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue on Amazon Japan's English language bestseller list.
He said: "The whole strategy of the Japanese government has just completely backfired."
Has there ever been a book* anywhere that saw sales go down after an authority figure came out against it?
* Replace with "album" or "video game" as you see fit.
