Stephenie Meyer sold over 15 million books in the US in 2008, and that’s just in outlets tracked by Nielsen Bookscan, where various editions of her books claimed 9 of the top 50 spots for the year. That total sale is millions of copies more than Rowling’s sales from books in to top last year, when Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows tracked 7,740,000 units, and two other titles on the list gave her sales of 8.6 million copies. (NB, that doesn’t include other backlist editions that did not sell enough to make the top 50.) Meyer occupies 6 of […]