I want to have more book sales threads here. I'm really enjoying all of your insights here given your expertise!

Book is very interesting, seeing into the mind of such an incredible spoiled brat and narcissist is fascinating

I got it as late Christmas present. Only read 2 pages so far but that was enough for him to already passive aggressively imply that Diana would be alive if not for Charles.

Might be good for a wobbly table or as firewood.

Spare First Week Breakdown:

Worldwide: 3.2 million - all formats
North America: 1.6 million - all formats
United Kingdom: 750,000 - all formats
Australia: 120,000 - all formats

North America: 629,273 - print only
United Kingdom: 467,183 - print only
Australia: 64,150 - print only

It's the biggest first week for a non-fiction title ever in the UK and AU, however, the 1.6 million wasn't enough to top "A Promised Land's" (Barack Obama) 1.7 million to take that record in NA.

Also, the print sales (629,273) weren't enough to beat Mr. and Mrs. Obama, A Promised Land (831,300) or Becoming (645,900), either, so it's the third biggest week for a non-fiction book (print only) in NA. Spare did sell many more copies than either on ebook or audio though.

Worldwide, of course, it's the biggest first week ever for a non-fiction book thanks to the UK's truly monstrous sales (broke the non-fiction record there by 304%(!), beating the prior record held by "My Autobiography" by Alex Ferguson).

I thought movie opening weekends were frontloaded! Books seem a whole other level! Don't expect Spare to have much staying power. Should be interesting to see how Megan's book sales compare.

On a side note, WB has royally messed up HP IP. There's so much money still on the table based on the book sales and even the lowest grossing movie adjusts to $349M now.

I had to look up what Brsinger and Inheritance are and saw they’re Eragon. That movie was a pretty big missed opportunity.

Agreed. The movie released around the time fantasy fatigue seemed to be kicking in (at least in the US), and then it wasn't a very good adaptation (aged up characters, too many changes) to get/keep fans interested.

Similar thing that happened with the Percy Jackson movies.

Both, however, are getting a series adaptation on Disney+ now.

The movie we need.

Brinsingr! Wow that takes me back. Those books get critiqued alot now, for many good reasons, but Paolini sure knew how to write a battle scene. The final 100 pages of Eldest are all hype. Hopefully Disney gives the show a big enough budget to pull that off.

I wonder where The Winds of Winter will land ... if it is ever released.

This is THE book we've (bookworms and those in the business) been waiting for. It wouldn't be Harry Potter level, but it's the only book that could have a fraction of the same impact. I would anticipate a few midnight releases, and crates of books being left on the store floor for buyers to grab versus bothering putting them on the shelf for the first day at some locations. (Wouldn't be Harry Potter level, but nothing since has received such treatment.)

Unfortunately... I think time has passed to really take advantage of achieving truly massive sales (say... first week of 2-2.5m in NA, 4-5m worldwide). Should have been released the year Season 8 was released or the year after when it had the attention of fans and casuals. House of the Dragon is helping to keep the franchise popular, but it's nowhere near 2015-2019 levels.

Although... I could expecting WAY too much. Fire & Blood only sold 71,533 physical copies in the US in its first week back in 2018 (prime GOT hype period), which would have been, probably, a little over 150,000 copies in all formats (they never announced a figure). Now, assuming 150,000+ all formats first week is certainly strong, and far more than the vast majority of books in a year, but it was very low compared to expectations and either on par with, or below, books from other popular authors.

Tada!

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I went back to provide the Top 20/25 selling PRINT books in the U.S. from 2010-2022. This helps shows what books have been popular over the past decade+, as well as provide reference for future book sales listed here. Speaking of... I'll also start posting weekly sales in the same thread.

This is great! Thanks! I'm sure there are some cool patterns to be found between book sales and movie box office I haven't paid as much attention to but feels so obvious now how big Crawdads was going to be.

Also feel like Michelle O could be the next Oprah, Ellen or Tony Robbins if she wanted to be. Spotify podcasts and Netflix production deals still feel so small for her but her book sales are massive.

Kate Middleton has cancer Hopefully she turns out ok. No doubt her popularity is about to blow up again. Poor William has horrible luck.

Buckingham Palace needs a new PR team cause JFC!!

Hope it's a less serious kind!

I'm starting to think this William guy is a curse.