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Amazon has 2 different paperbacks listed, is this what you're looking for?
Amazon has 2 different paperbacks listed, is this what you're looking for?
Yeah, that's what I saw...by the price it seems like that's what us 'mer'cans would call a mass market book, especially since it's over 700 pages long. So if there's a mass market paperback in the UK, why not here?
It was my thought, when Runes was first published, that by the time the mass market paperback came out enough former readers would have discovered it, bought the paperback (I know that some board members are *still* waiting for this), and then when Fatal Revenant came out Donaldson would almost be in full swing, with regard to sales.
Tor did something similar with the WoT books. The first two books (at least) were released as trade paperbacks, then mass market (or were they??)...I think so. Anyway, that kind of "marketing" allows for a reader to discover something before it's almost over. It worked well for Tor, as WoT has become a crazed monster. Donaldson only has four books though.
It was my thought, when Runes was first published, that by the time the mass market paperback came out enough former readers would have discovered it, bought the paperback (I know that some board members are *still* waiting for this), and then when Fatal Revenant came out Donaldson would almost be in full swing, with regard to sales.
Tor did something similar with the WoT books. The first two books (at least) were released as trade paperbacks, then mass market (or were they??)...I think so. Anyway, that kind of "marketing" allows for a reader to discover something before it's almost over. It worked well for Tor, as WoT has become a crazed monster. Donaldson only has four books though.
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In recent years, American publishers have embraced trade paperback wholeheartedly, but not with good intentions. Standard practice now, for a book released as a hardcover original, is to issue a trade paperback a year to 18 months after the hardcover if sales warrant, and then, if the sales of the trade paperback are good enough, the mass-market edition comes 12 to 18 months after that.
Grabbing the nearest comparable book that has been issued in all three formats: A Storm of Swords, by George R.R. Martin, was published in hardcover in November 2000, trade paperback in June 2002, and mass-market paperback in March 2003. That's a gap of almost two and a half years, which is fairly typical. Based on that, we should see a North American mass-market edition of Runes in the spring of 2007.
That, of course, is if we get one at all. The Powers That Be may decide that the sales of the trade editions weren't enough to justify printing a cheap paperback.
Grabbing the nearest comparable book that has been issued in all three formats: A Storm of Swords, by George R.R. Martin, was published in hardcover in November 2000, trade paperback in June 2002, and mass-market paperback in March 2003. That's a gap of almost two and a half years, which is fairly typical. Based on that, we should see a North American mass-market edition of Runes in the spring of 2007.
That, of course, is if we get one at all. The Powers That Be may decide that the sales of the trade editions weren't enough to justify printing a cheap paperback.
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I found one - mabye i read it wrong, perhaps it was only from that site - that said 100,000 copies. Which is rediculous.Buckarama wrote:I found one web site stating that it has sold more than ten million copies
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We're going nowhere slowly, but we're seeing all the sights.
And we're definitely going to hell, but we'll have all the best stories to tell.
Full of the heavens and time.
I think the 1st and 2nd chronicles together sold that many copies. Or perhaps just the 1st. I don't remember.
100,000 is sad...although any new author would die for those numbers. SRD isn't a new author. Those numbers should be vastly larger.
Also, I was under the impression that trade paperbacks were "milkers". For a series where a fair amount of time will pass before the next book comes out, and there isn't a guarantee of selling tons of hardcovers, they pass the time by tossing out a trade which is the same size as a hardocver, just not as expensive. Then, usually when the next book in the series is released, they put out a mass market. I can't imagine RotE not being published in a mass market edition. That would simply be insanity.
100,000 is sad...although any new author would die for those numbers. SRD isn't a new author. Those numbers should be vastly larger.
Also, I was under the impression that trade paperbacks were "milkers". For a series where a fair amount of time will pass before the next book comes out, and there isn't a guarantee of selling tons of hardcovers, they pass the time by tossing out a trade which is the same size as a hardocver, just not as expensive. Then, usually when the next book in the series is released, they put out a mass market. I can't imagine RotE not being published in a mass market edition. That would simply be insanity.
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Publisher's Weekly (which bases sales figures on what information is given to them by publishers) says ROTE sold 100,430. BUT the list that this information is published on is (as far as I can tell) a "Best Sellers 2004" list. Since Runes was released late 2004, I would assume the 100k figure would be much greater now.Warmark wrote:I found one - mabye i read it wrong, perhaps it was only from that site - that said 100,000 copies. Which is rediculous.Buckarama wrote:I found one web site stating that it has sold more than ten million copies
Article that the figure came from is: www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA512903.html
Thats the site i found ( googleSeareach wrote:Publisher's Weekly (which bases sales figures on what information is given to them by publishers) says ROTE sold 100,430. BUT the list that this information is published on is (as far as I can tell) a "Best Sellers 2004" list. Since Runes was released late 2004, I would assume the 100k figure would be much greater now.Warmark wrote:I found one - mabye i read it wrong, perhaps it was only from that site - that said 100,000 copies. Which is rediculous.Buckarama wrote:I found one web site stating that it has sold more than ten million copies
Article that the figure came from is: www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA512903.html
) but didnt post the link seen as i thought it was wrong.But if you're all about the destination, then take a fucking flight.
We're going nowhere slowly, but we're seeing all the sights.
And we're definitely going to hell, but we'll have all the best stories to tell.
Full of the heavens and time.
We're going nowhere slowly, but we're seeing all the sights.
And we're definitely going to hell, but we'll have all the best stories to tell.
Full of the heavens and time.