The sales statistics of the U.S. book market mainly come from four sources, namely BookScan (paper books) and PubTrack-Digital (e-book statistics) by NPD, as well as the American Publishers Association and author income.

BookScan only tracks paper books, and its data comes from actual sales in book retail outlets, including but not limited to physical bookstores, online bookstores, hypermarkets, book clubs, etc.

It tracks hundreds of thousands of book numbers every week, covering more than 90% of paper book sales in the United States.

The author's income is mainly from online bookstores, such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple, Google, Kobo and other places, and tracking the daily real-time sales data of millions of paper books, e-books, and audiobooks in various online bookstores in the United States!

These two statistics complement each other and basically reflect the market sales situation clearly and accurately.

In terms of last week's sales statistics, even if everyone was mentally prepared, they were still taken aback by the results.

Zhang Chu, a writer from China, is menacing and directly presses the best-selling god on the paper book!

"The Da Vinci Code" sold 2.8 million copies last week, while the reprint of "Fallen Titan" sold only 1.5 million copies, and the third-ranked "The Biography of Steve Jobs" sold only 600,000 copies, a huge difference!

These three works are all well-known genres, and the two most frequently asked questions by the clerks in bookstores today are "Do you have the Da Vinci Code for sale here?" and "What other works are the same as the Da Vinci Code".

In terms of e-book statistics, "The Da Vinci Code" is still far ahead, with a total of 1.2 million e-books sold in various e-book sales channels in the United States!

So when the New York Times bestseller list came out, "The Da Vinci Code", which sold 4 million copies a week, jumped into everyone's eyes and made them shake.

It's just blinding!

The people involved in Random House's side were all surprised, let alone the rest of them.

Blair laughed out loud in his office, keeping the clouds open and seeing the moon!

It's been so long, and finally a hit book has come out.

The U.S. alone has sold 4 million copies, so if you count the whole world, what does it do?

"It's incredible, even though I knew from the beginning that The Da Vinci Code was going to sell well, I didn't expect it to be such an explosion. ”

"yes, Blair really picked up a treasure!"

"It seems that religious, decryption, and suspense are going to take advantage of the opportunity to become popular, so we still have to hurry up and see if we can release a few copies. ”

"The Vatican knew that it was counterproductive, and I guess the archbishop was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood. ”

"No wonder you can enjoy such a good treatment, the company's leaders are really discerning!"

"No, wouldn't the 4 million copies sold in a single week be the same as those of the top writers, and even Stephen King can't reach this first-week appeal now. ”

The company was full of talk about the work, and at a time when the book publishing environment was declining, a foreign writer had achieved such a frightening result in the pursuit of the American public.

JK Rowling's "Occasional Vacancies" and "Where Did Fantastic Beasts Go" both exploded with this data, unless she released another "Harry Potter", she really can't compare to Zhang Chu!

What is the level of 4 million copies sold?

Life of Pi has been on the bestseller list many times, but it only sold 2 million copies a year!

Blair feels that "The Da Vinci Code" is by no means the kind of work that sells well in the first week and disappears the next week, and this kind of work will last longer with discussion and public opinion.

Perhaps the global sales record of a single book can be envisioned, and it is not a fantasy to sell 40 or 50 million copies under the accumulation of time, but a real and predictable one!

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["The Da Vinci Code" exploded globally, and the sales of Britain, France and the United States all broke the sales record of Asian writers!]

[The global sales volume in a single week exceeded 7 million, and Zhang Chu set a god-like number!]

[The New York Times bestseller list was announced, and "The Da Vinci Code" defeated "The Fall of the Giant" and "The Biography of Steve Jobs", reaching the top without suspense!]

[The Louvre Museum announced the number of visitors last week, which increased by nearly 50% year-on-year, and a large number of tourists came as a result. 】

[Zhang Chu swept the world, the Da Vinci code is infinitely charming!]

"The Da Vinci Code" sold nearly 10 million in the first week, catching up with the "Harry Potter" series!]

[Global book sales announced, "The Da Vinci Code" is expected to become the world's annual book sales champion. 】

Zhang Chu lets the world see the figure of Chinese writers!]

Nearly 10 million sales in a single week almost shocked the domestic media, Zhang Chu, who has overseas markets, burst out with infinite power, almost every market has amazing sales, and there is no dead end in the world!

Even in countries such as Spain, Italy, Germany, South Korea, and Japan, because the version in their own language is still being translated, readers who can't wait to buy a large number of English versions through the Internet want to get a sneak peek.

Mosquitoes are small, but they are also meat, and these countries have scattered sales of almost a million copies, but e-books are the main ones for the time being.

From CCTV and Xinhua News Agency, to WeChat's various public accounts, forums, and Weibo, almost everyone is attracted by the numbers of "The Da Vinci Code".

The first-week sales of close to 10 million are not rounded up, but real!

This is still the result of many small countries not reporting data, if the figures for each region of the world are completely counted, it is absolutely stable.

"Big brother, please take my knees!" said Anmi exaggeratedly, he had just read a bunch of news headlines, and now he had no other thoughts than worship.

Sun Ruiqi looked Zhang Chu up and down, and said with emotion: "You don't have one more head or one hand than us, and the gap is too big." ”

"I actually have a seven-trick exquisite heart, believe it or not. ”

To be honest, Zhang Chu was also frightened by this sales figure, he didn't know how Dan Brown sold in the first week of the release of "The Da Vinci Code" in his previous life, but it was certainly not as much as this time.

Yang Ling stretched out his hand and touched Zhang Chu's arm twice, which made the rest of the people stunned.

Zhang Chuhu asked suspiciously, "What are you doing?"

"Don't speak, let me rub my spirits. It is said that those who are close to Zhu are red and those who are close to ink are black, and together with a super god like you, maybe I can become a god too. ”

An Mi's eyes lit up instantly, he stretched out his hand and laughed twice, and then stretched out towards Zhang Chu.

"Smack" "Slap" "Slap"

Zhang Chu directly gave these two friends two hands on the back, and he couldn't find a girlfriend in the first place, if this scene was seen by others, wouldn't it make him lose his reputation for the rest of his life?

The spirit didn't touch, but the back of his hand was beaten, and An Mi deliberately sighed: "The great god is amazing, we hooked shoulders and backs at the beginning, but now you turn your face and don't recognize people." Alas, the human heart is not ancient!"

"I'm a god, I'm just writing books to make money to buy a villa for matcha. "Zhang Chu has always been very compelled in his heart, he is currently in the stage of copying the public, he is nothing at all, if one day he writes an original book and can be so powerful, it will be about the same.

The rest of the people obviously couldn't know Zhang Chu's inner world, and they thought that Zhang Chu was being humble!

But if you are too modest, it will become pretending.

"Speaking of which, you are already the top in China, and "The Da Vinci Code" has made you a god in the United States, after all, you are now a god-butcher. ”

No matter where the market is, the birth of a new best-selling author must overpower the old gods to be truly recognized!

Now Zhang Chu's new book sales far exceed "The Fall of the Giant", and millions of readers have expressed their support with practical actions.

"What kind of god-butcher is this, it's already a reprint. It's terrifying that so many books can be sold in a reprint, and if my book can be reprinted with this number, I guess I will wake up smiling when I sleep!"

The works that have been published for two years are theoretically almost saturated with readers, and now although it is a new edition, the content of the book has not changed.

Although Zhang Chu doesn't think so, domestic readers and media are vying to help him celebrate, thinking that he has jumped to the same level as Ken Fryde!

"It seems that the 12 million pounds are not spent in vain, Zhang Chuda will help Random House earn it back in a week. ”

"Cow Batch, Cow Batch! How many tens of millions of copies are piled up, it's hard to imagine!"

"If it weren't for the widespread coverage of this number, I would have thought it would have been Onion News. ”

"This book is so powerful, the next book will be stressful. But every writer must be willing to have such a film, and even if he doesn't do anything for the rest of his life, he will have an endowment insurance. ”

"I am very proud to be an international student, and now my classmates tell me that Zhang Chu's books are amazing, and let me recommend the rest of Zhang Chu's works to them! Unfortunately, few of the rest have been translated into English!"

"If you offend the church, you can still sell it so well, it seems that the influence of the church has become weaker and weaker. ”

"Who would have thought that this book would sell nearly 10 million copies, I think it's just ordinary suspenseful reasoning, and the knowledge points in it don't seem to be of any use except for expanding what you have seen. ”

"One in 10 million~~~ I bought it on purpose, reading it is like a 100-meter sprint, which makes people feel nervous and exciting, and finally get the reading pleasure of suspenseful reasoning!"

Affected by "The Da Vinci Code", Zhang Chu's reputation has increased by leaps and bounds in the past half a month, and it has begun to soar!

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There was a power outage during the day, and Xiaobao used his mobile phone to code a few hundred words and found that hey, mobile games are so fun!

I accidentally ran out of power, anyway, the computer and mobile phone at home were out of power, so I thought about going out to wave a wave, and the result was almost the full attendance award to the wave, and now I came back at full speed and finally caught up.