I posted earlier this year that I was confident I'd passed the 3 million mark in global sales.
I made a call back to these posts:
Back in 2014 I posted about selling my first half million books.
And at the start of 2016 I blogged to remark that I'd sold my first million.
& this graphic
Now I can say that I don't need to make the numbers up with the sales from those countries where my works have appeared in 26 other languages.
I got figures from Voyager who publish me in the UK (also New Zealand and Australia). They sell a similar number of copies of my work to these locations as Ace do to America and Canada.
The total reported (since 2011) was 1,640,539 (and this is roughly half my total sales in English) ... which strikes me as a big number. I remember scoffing at the clause in my first contract that said my royalty rates would improve on any sales of the Prince of Thorns paperback exceeding 100,000. The notion that I would sell in excess of 100,000 copies of the trilogy in total across all formats seemed akin to my suddenly developing the power of flight.
Those sales break down across formats in the following way - though no doubt the manner in which they are increasing is diffent from that indicated by the underlying totals.
audiobooks: 246,000
ebooks: 648,000
paperbacks: 635,000
hardcovers: 112,000
Anyway - thanks for sticking with me. And if I ever make it to 5 million, I'll let you know.
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