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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
If 70 million people bought the books then possibly well over 100 million read them
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Why do you think that? Have you read every book you bought in 2012? Bestselling author Umberto Eco once said in an interview in the late 80ies that he thinks that arround 10% of every sold copy of his books will be read.
In this specific case that would be 7 Mio people. Now this is a trilogy and most people buy all three volumes, so let's say 2 - 2.5 Mio people actually read this stuff worldwide.
This is a rough guess of course but don't forget: It's a trilogy. It's not 70 Mio. people that bought the books, but 70 Mio copies sold which is something different.