Fastest Selling Book in Company History
HarperCollins Publishers, a subsidiary of News Corp (Nasdaq; NWS,
NWSA: ASX: NWS, NWSLV), today announced that more than 1.1 million
copies of Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman have already been sold
by booksellers in the U.S. and Canada, making it the fastest selling
book in the company’s history. It also printed more than 150,000 copies
of the Spanish-language edition for the U.S., Latin America, and Spain.
The book went on sale Tuesday, July 14. HarperCollins has now gone back
to print on the title multiple times, and currently has more than 3.3
million books in print.
“First week sales of Go Set a Watchman have far exceeded our
expectations,” said Brian Murray, President and CEO of HarperCollins
Publishers. “Bringing this book to market has been an amazing effort by
thousands of people – from our publishing teams to booksellers large and
small. We are thrilled to see readers responding to this historic new
work from an iconic author like Harper Lee.”
Upon release, Go Set a Watchman immediately jumped to #1 on every
major book retailer’s bestseller list.
Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political
turmoil that were transforming the South in the 1950s, Go Set a
Watchman is a bold and deeply moving story about humanity,
close-knit family relationships, and one woman’s journey to become her
own person.
For additional information, please visit www.hc.com
About HarperCollins
HarperCollins Publishers is the second largest consumer book publisher
in the world, with operations in 18 countries. With nearly two hundred
years of history and more than 120 branded imprints around the world,
HarperCollins publishes approximately 10,000 new books every year, in
over 30 languages, and has a print and digital catalog of more than
200,000 titles. Writing across dozens of genres, HarperCollins authors
include winners of the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the National
Book Award, the Newbery and Caldecott Medals and the Man Booker
Prize. HarperCollins, headquartered in New York, is a subsidiary of News
Corp and can be visited online at corporate.HC.com.
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