Simon & Schuster has announced that Jaycee Dugard’s A Stolen Life, about her being abducted when she was 11 and held captive for almost 20 years, has sold a record number of books in it’s first days.

According to the publisher customers bought a record 175,000 ebooks, hardcover books and audiobooks on its first day on sale. Included in the 175,000 were nearly 100,000 ebooks.

Amazon can’t keep up with the demand for print books, saying that it will take 1 to 3 weeks to ship. If you want to check out A Stolen Life, you might be better off trying the Kindle version or A Stolen Life audio book version. The audiobook is read by Jacyee Dugard.

“In the summer of 1991 I was a normal kid. I did normal things. I had friends and a mother who loved me. I was just like you. Until the day my life was stolen. For eighteen years I was a prisoner. I was an object for someone to use and abuse. For eighteen years I was not allowed to speak my own name. I became a mother and was forced to be a sister. For eighteen years I survived an impossible situation. On August 26, 2009, I took my name back. My name is Jaycee Lee Dugard. I dont think of myself as a victim. I survived. A Stolen Life is my story in my own words, in my own way, exactly as I remember it.”

-Jacyee Dugard

Tina Jordan, of Entertainment Weekly wrote a great review of the book. She concludes “I didn’t finish the book thinking she was damaged. I finished it feeling blown away by her courage.”

Ms. Dugard tells a most compelling story that is worth listening to. Maybe her telling the story will make people pay a bit more attention to what’s going on around them.