Retailers consist of small and large for-profit businesses that sell products directly to consumers. To realize a profit, retailers search for products that coincide with their business objectives and find suppliers with the most competitive pricing. Generally, a retailer can buy small quantities of an item from a distributor or a wholesaler.
Fire and Fury sells half a million copies. Combined sales of hardcover, e-book and audio versions of Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury now top 500,000. Associated Press January 18, 2018 11:41am A company that tracks retail book sales says Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury sold more than 190,000 hardcover copies last week.
List of best-selling single-volume books[edit] See also: List of best-selling manga. The Perry Rhodan series has sold more than 1 billion copies, but is not listed because that figure includes magazine sales, not novels alone. Similarly, the Jerry Cotton series has sold over 300 million copies, but most of these were in magazine format. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien is included in the list as a single entry because it was written by Tolkien as a single book.