To put that in perspective: it's outselling all five Stephenie Meyer books...and that week was mostly before the movie opened. It must be nice to be Paul Levitz right about now.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Watching the Watchmen (Sales)
Watchmen
, according to the book-sales tracking system BookScan, was the #3 selling book overall last week, behind only Steve Harvey's Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man
and the unstoppable The Shack
.
To put that in perspective: it's outselling all five Stephenie Meyer books...and that week was mostly before the movie opened. It must be nice to be Paul Levitz right about now.
To put that in perspective: it's outselling all five Stephenie Meyer books...and that week was mostly before the movie opened. It must be nice to be Paul Levitz right about now.
Recurring Motifs:
Comics,
The Joys of Bookselling
2 comments:
I wonder how Watchmen's sales compare to the other DC/Vertigo sites...
Mark: Well, Watchmen is both #1 and #3 (in hardcover), with just the new Naruto volume in between.
(Though that Naruto sold about one copy for every 8 1/2 that Watchmen sold.)
There are some Bat-books at #s 12 & 15, more DC Universe at #23 & 24 (though we're now down well under 1/50 of Watchmen's sales), and more at #28, 36, and 50.
In fact, if I added correctly, Watchmen sold more than 5,000 more copies than all of the other books in the top 50 graphic novels combined. So that's a lot of books -- and it's just one week.
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