Sword Of Mid Afternoon Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 That Kevin J. Anderson is ahead of Frank Herbert seems wrong on so many levels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gasp of Many Reeds Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 That Kevin J. Anderson is ahead of Frank Herbert seems wrong on so many levels. Much agreed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted March 5, 2015 Author Share Posted March 5, 2015 Oh lord, that plagiarist hack Paolini really outsold GRRM? Hopefully not. The last figure for GRRM was 45 million, closing on 50, which I think puts him ahead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 Well, look at the sales for 50 shades of grey, then read 20 pages of it, and tell me humanity isn't doomed. :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Reckoner Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 Paolini is still selling? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted March 7, 2015 Author Share Posted March 7, 2015 Updated list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anatúrinbor Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 Why is Mark Lawrence still at 400,000? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted March 7, 2015 Author Share Posted March 7, 2015 Has there been a more recent figure? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anatúrinbor Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 http://mark---lawrence.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-first-half-million-is-hardest-i-hope.htmlAs of June 2014 I'm able to say that over half a million copies of the Broken Empire trilogy have been sold in English. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jussi Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 Richard Morgan150,000 copies of Richard Morgan titles in print in the UK market alone Ben Aaronovitch updateWith over 500,000 copies sold Eoin Colfer updatewho has sold over 25 million books Stephenie Meyer updateThe books have sold more than 250 million copies Deborah Harkness updateWith more than two million copies sold in the United States Ed Greenwood updatehave sold millions of copies worldwide Michael J. Sullivan updatemore than half a million copies sold so far Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 That list is both uplifting and disheartening at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jussi Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 James S.A. Corey Expanse series, which has over half a million copies sold worldwide Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (June 2014) Leckie estimates it has sold 30,000 copies so far Dune by Frank Herbert It has been translated into dozens of languages and has sold almost 20 million copies. Spanish numbers from February 2014 Patrick Rothfuss has sold 800,000 of The Kingkiller Chronicle, and Song of Ice and Fire by G.R.R. Martin (popular thanks to the TV series Game of Thrones) has sold 1,200,000 copies. Anthony Ryan (April 2014) 2nd ever royalty statement arrived - confirming Blood Song has now sold over 100,000 copies worldwideself-published sales Blood Song, the first in Ryan's Raven's Shadow trilogy, was initially self-published in 2011, selling 30,000 e-books, thus causing it to be picked for print publication. John Scalzi Old Man’s War has sold hundreds of thousands of copies Myke Cole (2013) My books have sold close to 40,000 copies in the EngÂlish speaking world, and that’s not counting audio books in the US and UK and transÂlaÂtions in GerÂmany, the Czech Republic and China. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted March 8, 2015 Author Share Posted March 8, 2015 Updated. Stephanie Meyer's sales have gone crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceChampion Posted March 8, 2015 Share Posted March 8, 2015 It would be interesting to see how much book sales improve over time for an author that sells their novels to become films or TV series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Werthead Posted March 8, 2015 Author Share Posted March 8, 2015 It would be interesting to see how much book sales improve over time for an author that sells their novels to become films or TV series. Based on GRRM, Meyer, Collins, Riordan and Roth, the answer is "Lots." :) Should be good news for Daniel and Ty then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord of Rhinos Posted March 9, 2015 Share Posted March 9, 2015 It really depends on how well the adaptation does. Any TV show or movie made off a book is going to be, in just about all cases, far and away the biggest advertisement possible for that product. Of course, people have to know it's an advertisement for to be effective. Everyone I've ever mentioned it to had no idea that the Tom Hanks' movie Road to Perdition was based on a graphic novel and there was very little talk about how Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides was licensed off Tim Powers' book. Fortunately, studios right now are being very active about promoting their products as based on books so folks like George R.R. Martin and Charlaine Harris have been making a lot of sales thanks to the TV adaptations. Studios tend to jump on what's hot so it can be hard to distinguish what's a sale due to the movie and what's a sale due to the cultural phenomenon in the first place. The Hunger Games was more than doubling its sales every year even before the movie came out, though there's no doubt that the movies have helped sell a lot of books. Movies on the other end of the spectrum like A Winter's Tale and Vampire Academy that were hardly seen probably didn't provide much of a boost to sells of there respective books. Probably a good case study would be Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates. It was published in 1961 and was released as a film starring Leonardo DeCaprio and Kate Winslet in 2008. It made 22,000,000 at the North America box office and was nominated for a few Oscars and Golden Globes. Lots of magazine articles about the film were published because of Kate and Leo reuniting for the first time since Titanic and quite a few of them mentioned the movie was based on a book. Revolutionary Road sold half a million copies that year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Patrek Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Hey Adam, Have you personally been in touch with many of those authors and/or their editors to get a clearer picture as to how many books they have sold? Patrick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRevanchist Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 Brooks ahead of Martin? I am sad!I also never thought that the likes of Rothfuss, Abercrombie and Sanderson* have sold so low (around 2-3m). While the likes of Hobb, Lawrence, Erikson are even lower.* On case of Sanderson, it is around 15m but more than 12m are from Wheel of Time which isn't his product. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord of Rhinos Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/nora-robertss-three-decades-of-writing-have-led-to-200-books/2012/04/16/gIQAxjsWMT_story.html Nora Roberts has sales of over 400 million. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRevanchist Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/nora-robertss-three-decades-of-writing-have-led-to-200-books/2012/04/16/gIQAxjsWMT_story.html Nora Roberts has sales of over 400 million. Isn't the original list only for sci-fi/fantasy authors? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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