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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Yep, people want to throw music, movies and books together for some reason, when really all three have very different business models and dynamics.
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I think that the use of music and movies as examples is to show that there are other avenues for entertainment that provide far more value than books.
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Originally Posted by pwalker8
For example, the best selling book from 1929, "All Quiet on the Western Front" sold 2.5 million copies in the first year and a half. "How Green was my Valley" held the record for sales in the US for a number of years with 250,000 copies sold in the United States. "Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince" sold 9 million copies in the first day.
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Is this apples and oranges? Are these US, UK or global sales figures? What is the population/market differences?
HPatHBP was also the sixth book of a very popular series, not standalone books, or the first of a series (not that they know this when first published).