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Last week, we reported that Barnes & Noble would not distribute the O.J. Simpson “If I Did It” book that the Goldman family will now be publishing. “Our buyers don’t feel there will be enough of a demand to carry it in our stores,” Barnes & Noble spokeswoman Mary Ellen Keating told The Associated Press. The bookseller has now changed its tune in light of sales estimates., and the book is currently available on both Barnes & Noble and Amazon, listed under nonfiction.

“We’ve been monitoring the pre-orders and customer requests and have concluded that enough customers have expressed interest in buying the book to warrant stocking it in our stores,” Keating told the Associated Press. “We do not intend to promote the book but we will stock it in our stores because our customers are asking for it.”

This is similar to the stance taken by the Borders Group Inc. last week.

The book, now titled “If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer” by the Goldman Family is currently listed as No. 15 on Barnes and Nobles bestseller list. The book is currently at No. 52 on Amazon bestsellers and No. 15 on its list of new releases. The book contains 14,000 words of additional key commentary.

It is scheduled for release Sept. 13 and now available for pre-order.