ROTS Novel on Bestsellers List Posted By Britany on April 14, 2005
Press Release
STAR WARS(r) EPISODE III NOVELIZATION ROCKETS ONTO BESTSELLER LISTS AFTER ONE DAY ON SALE!
After just a single day on sale, the official Star Wars Episode III film tie-in, STAR WARS(r): REVENGE OF THE SITH(tm) by Matthew Stover, debuted at #1 on the Wall Street Journal hardcover fiction bestseller list (dated April 8) and at #2 on the New York Times bestseller list (dated April 17) for the same category.
The novel, which went on sale nationwide on Saturday, April 2nd with a first printing of 650,000 copies, also hit at #4 on the USA Today's bestseller list, which combines all formats, and came in at #3 on Bookscan's overall hardcover fiction bestseller list for the week ending April 3rd. The bestseller lists are compiled from reports of books sold over the entire week.
Del Rey Books, which publishes both the Star Wars film tie-ins as well as a line of extremely successful original Star Wars fiction under its LucasBooks imprint, reports that sales for the novel are up twenty percent over their previous Star Wars film tie-in, Star War Episode II Attack of the Clones.
"Star Wars fans have waited nearly thirty years for the final chapter of the Star Wars saga, and the story behind the rise of Darth Vader," said Betsy Mitchell, Del Rey's VP & Editor-in-Chief. "Now that the film is only a few weeks away, there's an enormous groundswell of anticipation and excitement building, and that excitement is translating into amazing book sales. I'd say the Force is definitely with us!"
About Del Rey Books: Del Rey Books (http://www.delreybooks.com) was founded in 1977 as a division of Ballantine Books under the guidance of the renowned Judy-Lynn del Rey and her husband, Lester del Rey. Del Rey publishes the best of modern fantasy, science fiction and alternate history in hardcover, paperback, and now e-book formats. Ballantine Books is an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group, which is a publishing group of Random House, Inc, the U.S. publishing company of Random House, the trade book publishing division of Bertelsmann AG, one of the world's leading international media companies.
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