The Sales of Season 8 - Still Going Strong in TPB

[angearia]

Below you'll find two charts listing the Sales of Season 8 by individual issue and trade paperbacks. What's most fascinating to me is that Season 8 remains #1 in the trades to this day (it hits the #1 rank three times, #2 once and #3 once also). And Diamond doesn't keep track of all the trades that are bought at bookstores like Barnes & Noble and

Comments

[2maggie2]

It's nice to see that the TPBs are doing well relative to other TPBs -- but don't let the rankings fool you. The # of issues sold is vastly larger than the number of TPBs sold. The drop in sales of issues is more than five times larger than the total sales of the best-selling TPB.

It may be that some of the drop in sales of issues is people buying fewer alternative covers. But I know a *ton* of people who've dropped the book. So I find it hard to believe that attrition of readers isn't the main thing going on here.

[angearia]

It's still a very large drop in rankings true, but I'm kinda not surprised considering how long the comic has been going for. I'm betting there'll be a spike in sales with the Twilight issues and the finale actually. But I do think it's interesting that sales in TPBs are steady while the individual issues are in constant flux

[ubi4soft]

To be honest, until now I didn't think of buying S8 (shipping costs are pretty high even for the TPB) but maybe I'll buy the Twilight and the last TPB. Or if they plan to release Season 8 as an omnibus I'll definitely buy that.

[2maggie2]

Not rankings, raw numbers. Sales on issues have *dropped* by 55,000. The best-selling TPB sold a total of 9,500. Relatively speaking there aren't many sales on TPBs, which means you can't point to their sales as a measure of the general interest in the book

[2maggie2]

The drop in numbers between #25 and #26 isn't nearly as big as the drop in rankings. I'd guess that other titles came out that performed well, while season 8 continued to experience the steady erosion in sales.