AFFC had a very high print run. I thought it was reported as half a million at the time, but apparently it was around 300,000, which sold out before publication and had to be reprinted immediately. The print run for ADWD I heard was going to be around the 500,000 mark in the USA alone with preperations to reprint ASAP.

ASoIaF's future sales prospects are also going to be affected by the TV series. If ASoIaF's sales increase by even a quarter of the margin that Charlaine Harris's did in the year after TRUE BLOOD started airing, the entire readership of the series will more than double in twelve months. That's pretty sobering.



According to some of my contacts, they estimate the importance of the Internet in book-buying habits has risen from perhaps 1% of the audience ten years ago to around 10% now. Unfortunately, most of that 10% is down to mass-media outlets and Amazon. Thusly, Harriet Klausner and Robert Stanek alts continue to have more influence on book-buying habits than any SFF blog in existence