Jeff Kinney’s DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: The Ugly Truth, the fifth in his bestselling series, sold over 375,000 copies in its first day on sale according to publisher Abrams. The launch included an event at Book People in Austin, TX, where the author addressed over 1,600 fans to kick off his tour. The specially-branded tour bus will take Kinney to events in Little Rock, Memphis, Nashville, and Birmingham, AL, with up to 2,000 fans expected in the various venues. That opening-day sale is said to be up 50 percent from the big first day for the fourth book in […]
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Publish Film Sell?
The LAT claims that “a movie’s release often leads to only a small uptick in a tie-in book’s sales” while declaring the EAT, PRAY, LOVE tie-in “the big exception this year.” The interesting part is that the book returned to the top of the bestseller lists in late May, well in advance of the movie’s marketing campaign. Separately, Nielsen released a chart on sales for the Elizabeth Gilbert book, which recorded sales of 94,000 units in the week ending August 1 alone. Sales in 2010 of 721,000 copies are more than double last year’ sales (and the movie release August […]
Meyer's Bree Tanner Moves Over 350K In Two Days
Little, Brown Children’s says that they sold over 350,000 copies of Stephenie Meyer’s THE SHORT SECOND LIFE OF BREE TANNER in the first 48 hours of sale in the US. They also tabulate that 15,000 people around the world have read the free online version “in its entirety.” (In 2007 her third book ECLIPSE sold an estimated 150,000 copies in its first day; in 2008 the publisher estimated first day says for BREAKING DAWN of 1.3 million copies.) Publisher Megan Tingley says in the announcement “we have every confidence that with the upcoming Eclipse movie release that Bree’s shelf life […]
How Do You Solve A Problem Like Annual Publication Stats?
Yesterday afternoon Bowker issued their annual estimates of new books published in the US during 2009 that carried ISBNs. Titles produced via offset printing were essentially flat at an estimated 288,355. (That’s marginally lower than 2008’s 289,729, but keep in mind that this time last year, the 2008 estimate was only 275,000.) The number getting attention is their tabulation of 764,448 titles “that fall outside Bowker’s traditional publishing and classification definitions.” That’s nearly three times the 271,851 “nontraditional” titles from 2008. There are a number of details and issues of context worth examining here. For starters, in exchange for being […]
Lost Symbol Crosses 4 Million
Doubleday announced that Dan Brown’s THE LOST SYMBOL has now sold over 4 million units in North America inclusive of all formats: hardcover, ebook, and audio.
Gray Friday
With the official opening of the holiday shopping season, bookstores are seeing a lift though total sales were well below last year’s holiday kick-off. In outlets monitored by Nielsen BookScan, book sales for the week (through last Saturday) were 15.396 million units–a three percent increase over the prior week, but 9 percent lower than the same Thanksgiving-week from 2008, which registered sales of 16.857 million units.