How I Sold Millions of Books

The Best-Selling Books of All Time

What do these nine books have in common? Five of the nine books were originally written in English. Each of the other four were written in a different language: Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Mandarin Chinese, making English by far the most popular language for mega-best-selling books. English is only the third most spoken language in the world, behind Chinese and Spanish.

The little prince is a young boy. And it makes sense, right? Can you apply these to your own novels? Let me know in the comments.

Begin a story about two worlds. I lose a dollar. I find a new favorite author. For new, independent authors, the name of the game is growing your readership. Your primary goal, early on, should be to find as many people who will champion your work as possible.

You want fans of your work that will follow you for the entirety of your journey. And they followed her everywhere she went after that. And slotting high in those ratings is key to finding new readers. Readers will always be more likely to buy books they have reason to believe they might enjoy. The process, from there, self-reinforces. The more exposure your books get, the more copies you sell.

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The last four books in the series consecutively set records as the fastest-selling books of all time, where the final installment, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows , sold roughly fifteen million copies worldwide within twenty-four hours of its release. The Perry Rhodan series has sold more than 1 billion copies, [] but is not listed because that figure includes magazine sales, not novels alone. The figures given for some books are for the number printed instead of confirmed sales. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.

You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries. List of best-selling comic series and List of best-selling manga. The story was first published in New York City in English in April , followed a week later by its French counterpart.

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Le Petit Prince would not be published in France until its liberation, with Gallimard's first French printing in November , which they say they did not release for sale until Archived from the original on 15 March Retrieved 15 March Cook, Mao's Little Red Book: Archived from the original on 14 January Retrieved 23 August Rowling Archived at the Wayback Machine. With 12 million books printed in the first run, it also holds a record for the 'highest initial print run for a fiction book'. Retrieved November 21, It is written in the preface to many editions that the book is sometimes 'erroneously' referred to as a trilogy, and goes on to state that it is one book in three volumes.

Some people consider it to instead be a trilogy or series of three books, because it was originally published as a series of three volumes: Waterstone's Archived at the Wayback Machine. This move by the publishing house was due largely to post-war paper shortages as well as to minimize the price of the first volume to aid sales. In subsequent printings the book has sometimes appeared as a single volume, and in at least one case was split into seven.

The figure of million is a estimate of copies of the full story sold, whether published as one volume, three, or some other configuration. Archived from the original on Retrieved October 27, No matter the name, the first Harry Potter book is the best seller of the seven-part series. What has made the book such an enduring success? Retrieved 28 April The New York Times.

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Retrieved 30 September Thomas Boswell for The Washington Post: Zondervan consistently promotes the ever popular devotional—which has sold 33 million copies in over 50 languages since its publication Archived at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved January 10, What's the film status of his book 'The Lost Symbol'? Archived from the original on 8 December Archived from the original on 11 May Retrieved 12 May Whatever became of the myth".

Pride and Prejudice is the novel that simply will not die. Across the Pacific in a Raft: More than 20 million copies were already produced. Archived copy as title link Macmillan on Dune: A Teenage Novel Turns 50". JoJo Moyes confirms third instalment in the works". Like One of the Family: Archived from the original on April 12, Archived copy as title link on The Gospel according to Peanuts: Archived copy as title link on Life of Pi: It has sold around 10 million copies and has been translated in over 35 languages. The Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature.

Continuum International Publishing Group. Archived from the original on 12 October Retrieved 5 January Archived from the original on 31 July Retrieved 12 March Published between and , the San Antonio anthology is one of the best-selling French novel series of all times, having sold an estimated million copies. Archived from the original on 9 May Mercer's Little Critter has since starred in more than two hundred books, which have sold over one hundred and fifty million copies. James has a new 'Fifty Shades': The books have sold more than million copies and have spawned two film adaptations, with a third one slated for release next year.