12/26/11: Tebow’s Book a Best Seller

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Tim Tebow’s “Through My Eyes” is the top-selling new release of 2011.
The life story of the Denver Bronco’s quarterback from HarperOne, a leading religion book publisher, has sold 220,000 copies since its June launch and has outsold Rob Bell’s best-seller “Love Wins,” which sparked intense debate with its unorthodox views about hell.

As soon as “Through My Eyes” hit bookstores, it was a hit with Christian football fans, especially in the Southeast where Tebow won the Heisman Trophy for the University of Florida. But an uncanny series of late-in-the-game Broncos wins fed a blitz of national attention and fueled curiosity about one of the most outspoken Christian athletes. HarperOne says readership is now beyond the evangelical world and NFL fans.