Watchmen In-Print Update

Remember how it was big news that Watchmen had an additional 300,000 copies rushed into print after the movie trailer debuted with that movie about the flying rodent? (I blogged about it myself.)

Well, the New York Times quietly noted on Wednesday that the actual total number of new copies of Watchmen in print since mid-July is 900,000.

(Sell-through update: after the week when it was up 244% over prior week, and then the week it was up 75% over that, it hit another hugely up week, at 141% -- though the last week, ending 8/10, was down 10%. It's still selling four times what it was just three weeks ago and well over ten times what it was selling per week in mid-June. And, once again, let's remember that Watchmen was a solid backlist book, moving 100,000 units a year consistently. Also, I should add that the numbers I see are for the book trade; they don't include the comics direct market.)

[via The Beat]