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I mean clearly HP craze has smashed Discworld in the end. But the first three HP books were released in the late 90s, whereas Pratchett wrote 16 novels through
by ErrantX 4y ago
I mean clearly HP craze has smashed Discworld in the end. But the first three HP books were released in the late 90s, whereas Pratchett wrote 16 novels through the decade (and something like 5-6 in the 80s). So he had volume on his side.
- boomboomsubban 4y agoWhile he did, Harry Potter books are huge. Looking at the best selling books article on Wikipedia, all of the Discworld books sold 90 million total copies, the first Harry Potter sold 120 million. So I'm guessing that claim is only for books sold during the 90's, but Rowling sold far more copies of books published in the 90's
- ErrantX 4y agoYes I agree that is how it is being claimed. Interestingly; the first HP book was published in 1997 but the print run was only 500. The book wasn't published in the US till late 1998 and by that point hadn't even sold half a million copies. I believe it kind of blew up in sales through 1999 but the UK -> US lag meant most of the sales were in the 2000s.