Thanks to sales of 41,028 in just 24 hours, Christopher Paolini’s the third instalment in Paolini’s Inheritance Cycle series became one of the fastest selling books of all time. Helped by some five figure pre-order figures at the major retailers, one copy of Brisingr was sold or dispatched every 2.1 seconds on Saturday. (Source:thebookseller.com)
Random (Paolini’s publisher) had printed 2.5 million copies of Brisingr, the largest-ever first printing for the division. First-day sales for the title were four times that of Eldest, second in the cycle, which pubbed in August 2005. (Source: publishersweekly.com)
This offcial figure confirms the book as the fastest selling children’s book in the UK this year, beating Stephanie Meyer’s latest Breaking Dawn, and the paperback of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Paolini is currently on a 10-city book tour. In all editions, the first two volumes have sold over 15.5 million copies worldwide. A fourth volume will conclude the Inheritance cycle, though a publication date has not been set.
First-day sales in North America topped half a million for Christopher Paolini’s “Brisingr,” the third of his million-selling “Inheritance” fantasy cycle and unveiled last weekend with a Harry Potter-like midnight opening.
According to publisher Random House Children’s Books, “Brisingr” sold 550,000 copies in the first 24 hours, four times higher than “Eldest,” the second of Paolini’s planned four-book series.
It was the highest opening ever for a Random House children’s book, but far below the 8.3 million copies in the United States alone for the launch of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” and the 1.3 million for Stephenie Meyer’s “Breaking Dawn,” released at midnight on Aug. 2. (Source: The Canadian Press)