Kansans not standing in line to purchase Clinton memoir

? Hillary Clinton’s new book might be making magic in New York, but in Kansas, she is no Harry Potter.

As of Monday afternoon, Dodge City’s Hastings book store had sold two of its 20 copies of the much-hyped 528-page book by the former first lady, “Living History.”

In contrast, the store has ordered 200 copies of the new Harry Potter book, scheduled for release June 21, and employee Stefanie Willems expects those to be sold out in a day.

In New York, customers clamored at the city’s Barnes & Noble to get the book when it hit the shelves Monday.

In Hutchinson, the B Dalton Bookseller store at the local mall hadn’t sold a single copy by Monday afternoon. Across town at the Hastings store, eight of the copies — at 40 percent off the $28 retail price — had been sold, but four of those went to the same person.

At the Hastings store in Garden City, only a few of the 11 copies on hand had been sold.

“I think it’s a women’s issues thing,” store manager Mark Miller said. “I don’t expect a lot of guys to buy it.”

The book brings Clinton to the forefront, though she has denied any intention to run for the presidency in 2004.