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The Twilight Saga Breaks a USA Today Record

August 4, 2009

We’ve often said that the only way in which the Twilight novels and Harry Potter novels can be compared is the fact that they were books directed at younger audiences, written by previously unpublished women, they have tremendous sales totals, and they have fanatic fan followings. In fact we just turned down participating in an webevent that wanted a faceoff to determine which was better, because it’s not a contest. Reading, in our opinion, shouldn’t be a contest. Especially since the books are differnt genres, it would be like asking what’s better a cubist Picasso or an impressionist Monet.

USA Today just announced that the Twilight Saga broke a record previously held by Harry Potter. So you can see how the sales total comparison is an interesting one.

According to USA Today:

“The four-book Twilight series has sunk its fangs into USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books list — with no signs of letting go. Meyer’s domination of the list for the past 12 months has smashed records that until now had belonged to J.K. Rowling.

Breaking Dawn, the fourth book in the teen-vampire romance series, entered the list at No. 1 on Aug. 2, 2008. Its sales and those of Twilight, New Moon and Eclipse, the first three books, have remained staggering.

This week, Meyer’s novels are Nos. 4, 5, 6 and 7 on USA TODAY’s list.

Rowling, overall, has sold more books than Meyer — her seven-book series about boy wizard Harry Potter has 143 million copies in print in the USA, while Meyer has sold 40 million copies of her four books. But Rowling can’t match Meyer’s control of the list.”

Check out the whole story on USA Today. It doesn’t take sides in which novels are better, but it provides an interesting insight into their respective sales patterns and histories.

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Twilight Goes Manga

July 15, 2009

The Entertainment Weekly got the exclusive on the new Twilight Saga Manga (we’ve been asked not to embed their exclusive photo so we are compiling.)

EW.com has exclusive sketches online and this week’s issue of Entertainment Weekly (which is the annual Comic-Con preview issue) has the finished illustrations of Edward, Bella, and Jacob.  The sketches don’t look simply like an artist’s rendering of Kristen Stewart and Rob Pattinson, but are true to the novel’s descriptions. Yen Press,  a division of Hachette Book Group (the parent company of Little Brown that publishes The Twilight Saga), is publishing this venture.

“For those of you who can’t get enough Edward and Bella, EW can announce — exclusively — that Yen Press will be publishing Twilight in graphic-novel form. Though Korean artist Young Kim is creating the art, Meyer herself is deeply immersed in the project, reviewing every panel.”

The Lexicon asked a spokesperson for Stephenie Meyer when the novel would be release and we were told the following: “A publication date for Twilight: The Graphic Novel will be forthcoming.” So hang on, as soon as we know, you’ll know!

Get the full details of the Twilight Manga on EW. So, how about it Manga fans, how many of you are interested in this, or for that matter, Manga newbies, are you interested?

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Twilight Saga Books Continue Sales Domination

July 9, 2009

According to USA Today:

“Vampires won’t let go. Just as they did in the first quarter, Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight novels continued to dominate USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books list in the second quarter — selling in the same order as they did in the first three months of the year.

Top 20 sellers for the second quarter
1. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
2. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
3. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer
4. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer”

With New Moon coming out this fall, Eclipse coming out next summer, and meeting more and more people who only just discovered Twilight recently, we predict that the phenomena is going to continue for at least another year. TY to Shannon for the heads up.

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Special Edition Twilight Saga Books & Journals

May 7, 2009

Stating this summer, several new Twilight-based products will be offered. Entertainment weekly got the full scoop. There will be journals, a CD containing the Breaking Dawn concert Series and more.

Now for those of you who have been wondering if there would be a New Moon movie book, October 6th is the date that you want to mark on your calendars.  “For those hoping to buy books tied into New Moon, Little, Brown will release New Moon: The Complete Illustrated Movie Companion on Oct. 6″

Get the full run down on EW.

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The Twilight Saga:Escapism At Its Best

April 8, 2009

According to the New York Times part to of why the Twilight Saga is such a success has to do with the economic climate.  And here we thought the last three years were all about a dead sexy vampire vs. werewolf and imagining yourself….(maybe somethings are better left unsaid). According to the Times:

“In a recession, what people want is a happy ending. At a time when booksellers are struggling to lure readers, sales of romance novels are outstripping most other categories of books and giving some buoyancy to an otherwise sluggish market.”

The Times goes on to state that fantasy romance is particularly hot:

“Such escapist urges are also fueling sales of science fiction and fantasy, said Bob Wietrak, a vice president for merchandising at Barnes & Noble. Mr. Wietrak said sales of novels with vampires, shape shifters, werewolves and other paranormal creatures were “exploding,” whether they were found in the romance, fantasy or young-adult aisles, where Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series continues to dominate…”

They also mention fellow vampire authors PC and Kristen Cast and J. R. Ward as further examples of the genre.  If you are into the YA genre check out the Casts, and if you are an adult who likes racy check out J.R. Ward (not that the entire admin team is plotting to attend a J.R. Ward signing or anything like that.)

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Catherine Hardwicke Makes the New York Times Best Seller List!

April 3, 2009

This just in from Entertainment Weekly:

“She made the movie, she wrote the book, and now Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke has a message for all her fans out there: Thanks for helping the movie and the book (and, really, everything else Twilight) hit No. 1! The filmmaker/author just found out that her Twilight: Director’s Notebook will be at the top of Sunday’s New York Times best-seller list, so she wrote a little note and shot a little video to commemorate the occasion.”

Click here to read the note she wrote to fans on EW.


Find more videos like this on Catherine Hardwicke

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Twilight Hits the Arab Speaking World

April 3, 2009

According to Publisher’s Weekly the Twilight Saga is set to take the Arab-speaking world by storm. In fact it might be more popular than Harry Potter.

“The Harry Potter books did not sell as well when translated into Arabic as it did in other parts of the world,” said Haissam Fadel, foreign rights and sales manager of the Arab Cultural Center, an Arabic-language publisher interviewed at last month’s Abu Dhabi International Book Fair. “It may have had something to do with the fact that readers didn’t know exactly who the books were for—adults or children.

We’re going to predict success on this one, and we want to take this opportunity to give a shout out to the Lexiconers who are in the Arabic speaking Middle East! According to our stats here’s who visits us:

471 people from the UAE

235 people from Saudi Arabia

47 people from Kuwait

38 people from Lebanon

34 people from Qater

34 people from Bahrain

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