Oh, what a birthday week for Dr. Seuss books

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On the traditionally good sales week around the birthday of Dr. Seuss, 2021 sales were boosted even further after the estate discontinued six books.

More than 1.2 million copies of stories by the late children’s author sold in the first week of March — more than quadruple from the week before — followingbecause of racial and ethnic stereotyping. For days virtually every book in the top 20 on Amazon’s bestseller list was by Dr. Seuss.

According to NPD BookScan, which tracks around 85% of retail sales, the top sellers weren’t even the books being withdrawn. “The Cat in the Hat” sold more than 100,000 copies, compared with just 17,000 in the previous week. “Green Eggs and Ham” topped 90,000 copies, and “One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish” sold around 88,000.

 

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Looks like “PEEWEE HERMAN “ is inline to be the next Dr. Seuss, who vetted him? Do the people know his past history? Pewee is a good name for him!

His Books in 100 or so yrs from now are gonna be worth 'CRAZY MONEY' or whatever People are using then for Currency... DrSeuss

Tarnished by FoxNews TuckerCarlson seanhannity GOP - it’s amazing how a company who chose not to publish a few books because they deemed them not to be inclusive and on brand has been linked to “cancel culture” by GQP

A graça q salva é os mantimentos do 3º ano de Deus q enche as casas até faltar lugar p guardar, p se servir a Jesus porque Jesus está em nós e Jesus diz serviram meus pequeninos irmãos na fome sede frio doentes a mim me serviram venham salvos para a vida eterna Mateus 25:34,35,36

I celebrated by buying as many books as I can

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