50 in the house

Hmm. 75,000 seems like a modest first printing in the realm of blockbuster publishing. Why not 250,000, 500,000 or a cool 1,000,000? (I’m joking, first printings are getting out of control)

From PW Daily:
From Pieces to Weight: Once Upon a Time in Southside Queens by 50 Cent with Kris Ex (MTV Books, $23) features unpublished poetry and lyrics taken directly from the hip-hop star's journals and scrapbooks. 75,000 copy first printing.

PW posed the question will 50’s book push out Confessions of a Video Vixen. I can feel the pins and needles, can’t you?