Tuesday, August 05, 2008

'Breaking Dawn' Breaking Records

Hachette Book Group estimates that they sold 1.3 million copies of Stephenie Meyer's BREAKING DAWN on Saturday.
The company added a 500,000-copy reprint prior to publication, for 3.7 million copies in print.Borders announced that its stores and web site sold over 250,000 copies on opening day--"nearly 10 times what the retailer's first-day sales were for Eclipse, the third book in the series."
Borders release

In other announcements from Hachette Book Group, this morning the company said it will use BlogTalkRadio--the free, web-based radio talk-show platform--to launch five "radio shows" featuring content from HBG imprints this September.
Report from Publishers Lunch.

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