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NEWS: Sword Art Online Light Novels Have More Than 16.7 Million Copies in Print Worldwide




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Soaringfalcon



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PostPosted: Fri Dec 19, 2014 1:48 pm Reply with quote
thats great that SAO is doing great hopefully through its success we can see more light novels getting official translations, In fact i'm starting to see a couple more light novels for preorder on amazon and barnes and noble now I just got my copy of Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? im loving it so far long title though Very Happy
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EighteenSky





PostPosted: Fri Dec 19, 2014 2:00 pm Reply with quote
Fantastic news, it's a fab series that thoroughly deserves it's success. I'm happy to see not just this but any light novel series do well internationally though even if I may not like said series.
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macloud



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PostPosted: Fri Dec 19, 2014 2:15 pm Reply with quote
While I'm glad to see we're seen to be contributing to overall sales for a release, I'm surprised though to see Great Britain included - usually we're not counted due to the majority of our releases[with some few exceptions, such as the Gollancz release of case closed] being imports from America.
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Hameyadea



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PostPosted: Fri Dec 19, 2014 2:44 pm Reply with quote
It's nice that the series is selling well, but, frankly, I'm more interested in Accel World.
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AmIBro



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PostPosted: Fri Dec 19, 2014 4:38 pm Reply with quote
They are not planned in Poland because 1st volume is already out.
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Kadmos1



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PostPosted: Fri Dec 19, 2014 7:16 pm Reply with quote
As far as I know, SAO and the Index franchise are the best-selling LN series.
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OH&S



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PostPosted: Fri Dec 19, 2014 8:20 pm Reply with quote
Kadmos1 wrote:
As far as I know, SAO and the Index franchise are the best-selling LN series.


I'm pretty sure Slayers has about 20 million in sales.

I'm not too surprised by this outcome with SAO being as popular as it is. I remember that the Index LNs have over 15 million copies in print as of mid-2014. A bit sad that Index isn't Dengeki's #1 anymore but it was going to happen sooner or later.
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Kadmos1



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Slayers outselling SAO? Cool.
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SilverTalon01



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PostPosted: Sat Dec 20, 2014 2:55 pm Reply with quote
Kadmos1 wrote:
Slayers outselling SAO? Cool.


I think it is more like "outsold." SAO can probably top it depending on how long it keeps going.

OH&S wrote:
A bit sad that Index isn't Dengeki's #1 anymore but it was going to happen sooner or later.


I wanted to say Index had more than that, but I guess I was remembering wrong.
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