"Finders Keepers" sales

[Rrty]

Publishers Weekly is out with its sales figures for the period ending June 7 (which I believe is a seven-day period).

Finders Keepers is number one on the overall list, the hardcover fiction list, and the audiobook list.

I'd provide a link, but I believe after a week it goes out of date (the archive is only for subscribers). I'll therefore just report the numbers (feel free to visit the site on your own, though, to check out the rest of the books on the list; also, although it isn't up yet, the analysis for the lists I'm assuming will be published later in the day, and that should be worth a read).

The book has sold over 68,000 copies. The audiobook has sold 1,200 units.

Revival, by the way, has dropped from number five to number ten on the trade paperback list. It has sold over 53,000 copies at this point in that format.

 

[Rrty]

Finders Keepers dropped to number three on the overall sales chart but remained the top-selling book on the hardcover fiction list. (These data are for the week ending June 14, and can be found at Publishers Weekly. As I said before, a direct link to the chart eventually becomes inactive, I believe.) During that time, the book sold almost 35,000 copies. It's cumulative total since release is over 103,000 copies.

According to an article at Publishers Weekly during the Revival release, that tome sold over 89,000 copies during its first week.

The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales for Week Ending November 16, 2014

I wonder, then, if Keepers might not do as well as Revival.

Keepers' audiobook performance is interesting. It sold well less than 1,000 units for its second week on the chart, and it has moved roughly 1,900 units in total sales at this point; it is currently ranked in second place. In fact, from looking at the entire audiobook list, it appears that this market doesn't tend to have a lot of sales (at least, not in relation to my expectations, anyway). For instance, The Girl on the Train has only sold 14,000 units after being out in the market for over twenty weeks. Is the audiobook market even worth it? Or was it a more valuable industry before the digital age wrecked recorded-music sales?

 

[RichardX]

King did a multi-city book tour for "Revival" beginning the day of release. That may have prompted some greater sales directly at those events and indirectly through publicity. And lots of people who get a signed copy end up buying another copy to read. Or at least I do. I ended up with six copies of Revival after attending the DC and Portland, ME events with family. Revival was also marketed as a traditional King horror genre book which appeals to his traditional fans. The Mr.M and FK detective series is something new for him.

 

[GNTLGNT]

...I've never sweat the sales numbers...or genres, tours etc.....I will read anything the man puts out...will I love em all?, probably not-but he's always going to turn a buck off of me....