Atlas Shrugged Author Sells 1,000,000 Books in 2012
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May 14, 2013
IRVINE, Calif.—Thirty years after her death, novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand is still selling a lot of books, a million to be precise. The popular author of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead has sold 1,000,000 copies of all of her titles in 2012.
2012 saw Atlas Shrugged sell 359,105 copies, its third highest total of all time, behind 2009 (#1) and 2011 (#2).
As the decades move along Rand has only gotten more popular. Atlas Shrugged was a bestseller in Rand’s day, but it’s selling more than ever in the 2010s. Annual purchases of Atlas Shrugged by decade averaged:
1980s — 74,300 per year
1990s — 95,300 per year
2000s — 167,028 per year
2010s — 303,523 per year
To date Rand’s books have sold a total of 29,500,000 copies. 2,962,876 of these have been requested from the Ayn Rand Institute by American school teachers.
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May 14, 2013
IRVINE, Calif.—Thirty years after her death, novelist-philosopher Ayn Rand is still selling a lot of books, a million to be precise. The popular author of Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead has sold 1,000,000 copies of all of her titles in 2012.
2012 saw Atlas Shrugged sell 359,105 copies, its third highest total of all time, behind 2009 (#1) and 2011 (#2).
As the decades move along Rand has only gotten more popular. Atlas Shrugged was a bestseller in Rand’s day, but it’s selling more than ever in the 2010s. Annual purchases of Atlas Shrugged by decade averaged:
1980s — 74,300 per year
1990s — 95,300 per year
2000s — 167,028 per year
2010s — 303,523 per year
To date Rand’s books have sold a total of 29,500,000 copies. 2,962,876 of these have been requested from the Ayn Rand Institute by American school teachers.
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- 0Posted by $ MikeMarotta 12 years, 10 months agoActually, you need to get behind the numbers to see what they mean. For one thing, auditable sales probably went over 30 million a year or two ago. Also, while the Big Name Books are tallied, figures for "Introduction to the Objectivist Epistemology", "Philosophy: Who Needs It", "The Early Ayn Rand" and her other minor works are harder to find. Moreover, you have to count the books ABOUT Ayn Rand and her ideas. For instance, the University of Texas library here has _two_ copies of Tara Smith's "Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics" along with another nine volumes in the "Philosophy: modern and minor" Call Numbers, aside from stacking her major works in the Philosophy and Fiction shelves. I estimate the number at 40 million copies of 40 different books by and about Ayn Rand.| Permalink
- 0Posted by $ MikeMarotta 12 years, 10 months ago in reply to this comment.... and looking behind the numbers... I own 18 different volumes, including three copies of ATLAS and two of THE FOUNTAINHEAD. (I collect books, so first editions, etc., are special to me. Of course, buying a used book - however rare - does not tally for sales, even though it should.)| Permalink
- 1Posted by nickberry 13 years agoShe's been dead for 30 years and still outsells most authors, ironic huh.| Permalink
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- 1Posted by overmanwarrior 13 years agoIt is the only book that explains the trouble of our day, and people are discovering it.......thankfully. But...........I have to give the production team of Atlas Shrugged the movie credit. They have helped ignite those sales with their films.| Permalink
- 2Posted by terrycan 13 years agoMr. Thompson will not be speaking tonight.| Permalink
- 4Posted by UncommonSense 13 years agoFor the Left, that's in Inconvenient Truth. hahahahahahaha| Permalink
- 2Posted by fivedollargold 13 years agoThe Kindle Centennial Edition is currently ranked #1,038 in sales.| Permalink
