Twilight Saga breaks Aussie sales record



Stephenie Meyer has broken a new record in Australia:

Copies of Breaking Dawn, the latest book in the four-part series, flew off Australian bookstore shelves at a rate of 19,800 copies each week during January, according to Nielsen Bookscan.

The previous record for January sales was held by The Da Vinci Code, with 14,500 copies sold in the first month of 2005.

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**Thanks to Claire for the tip!

43 thoughts on “Twilight Saga breaks Aussie sales record

  1. Mel

    WOOHOOO!!
    GO AUSTRALIA!!
    I am proud to say that I was one of those 19,800 people who brought a copy.

    Stephenie Meyer is brilliant. And awesome. So awesome. lol : )

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  2. Nichole Aurora

    .yea another first comment! ya!!!!!!….I’m soo happy for our Stephine! she deserves all the blessings she has received! I hope her and her beautiful family are happy and healthy! I can’t wait to see the dvd and to see her behind the scene goodies :) ! Love ya twilighters have an awesome friday :)

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  3. Maddi

    OMG! thats soo awesome! when i bought the book, i didnt even know it was new.
    I only saw that we were bought the last copy. It is soo cool! I have read it like 8 times now! and ive read eclipse 7 times, new moon 7 times and twilight 10 times!
    I got all my friends hooked too.
    My friends mum likes my because by taking her daughter to the movie of twilight , she started reading. ‘finally’ she described it. so i am welcomne there all the time.
    I love the movie and ive seen it 6 times!
    twice on the internet.
    LOL its the best! cant wait for New Moon!

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  4. Lina

    What I don’t get is how people have not heard of these books before, because NOW they go out and buy the books? SHOCKING! Anyways, good for Steph! :D

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  5. emilyNJ

    sometimes books are released at different dates in different countries, i think. i know when i was in england my fav british author had her latest book out, but it wasn’t due in america for another few weeks.

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  6. Stephanie T.

    Congrat’s Stephenie! I’m so happy for Twilighters everywhere! Stephen King can kiss my TWILIGHTER’S backside!
    GO TEAM EDWARD!!!! :p

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  7. TwilightLover(Grace)

    WOOOOO! Well done Steph! You deserve it. The Twilight saga is a million times better than the da vinci code.

    GO TEAM EDWARD!!!!=)

    Hi hazel in australia!!!

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  8. greyeyedlux

    Anyone else think that Stephenie should possibly get a tan? She looks a little scary in that pic…

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  9. EDWARD CULLEN IN THE FLESH!

    First off… I’m new to the site and probably the ONLY teen dude here ever! Well, except for Chris of course! Now back to my comment…

    Whoa! Stephenie totally looks like a vamp in this pic. She’s so pale. Is she always this pale in her pics?

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  10. emilyNJ

    it’s the red lipstick! she always wears it…it’s her trademark and i LOVE it! i wish i could pull red lipstick off like that!

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  11. Mrs Pattz

    ha ha im not suprised. here is australia im not surprised cause i have not met a person who has not read the book.

    would also like to mention seeing as i did submit some news about the twilight gang and it wasnt posted – ill say it here.

    in australian mag “girlfriend” (march 2009 issue) kristen stewart and rob pattz are on the front cover – gorgeus as always!! and the rest of twilight gang are featured inside. so i usually dont say this but ppl here in australia get the march ’09 issue of “girlfriend”!

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  12. Bonnie

    YAY Aussie Pride
    The first day it came in Sydney every one tryed to get outta school and if they couldn’t they raced to the local shops ansd when i got their they were all gone luckly there is a sceret book store and i got it but wow

    YAY AUSSIE

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  13. Alyssa

    Hi guys its Bella!!!! :D CONGRATS Steph Im almost done with the saga again !!! Ive already read it once!! GO BD!!!! :D

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  14. Charlotte

    she is too pale and the lipstick overpowers her with her new hair color
    it was much better reddish with less pale skin

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  15. Cyn

    Yayy!
    This doesn’t suprise me though.. lucky i got my copy ages ago but my cousin went looking everywhere for a copy and couldn’t find one.

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  16. Iamyournextaddiction

    That’s great! Of Course they are selling Big, it’s the Twilight Saga!!!!!!! Go Stephenie!

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  17. alice cullen

    wow!!!!!!! twilight is soooooo awsome!!!!!!! i bet j.k.rowling is feeling pretty horrible!! lol jk.

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  18. monkeyman

    stephanie looks like one of her vampires in this pic
    and i am not surprised at how well the books are selling now ^^ Team ALICE !!!!

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  19. Kenni

    Yeap! hopefully they will be aware that Twilight gain huge fans here and do the premiere in Melbourne(coz i live in Melbourne) for NewMoon.

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