Index Novel Sales Figures and Discussion
 

[Mod Edit: This conversation split from the NT7 thread. All future discussion about sales can go in this thread.]

For those keeping track, New Testament 7 sold 91,775 copies in it's first week.

just to make sure, that was exactly what sold in three days?

Yes, the record was for the 6th to the 12th, and NT7 hit the shelves midway on the 10th.

until it is a good number, as long as pass 150,000 copies I'll be happy.

You do realize 90% of all Light Novel series would never get to see those numbers?

For a LN is that a good thing or just avarage?

It's already the cream of the crop, evening with OreImo/Mahouka and only beaten by SAO and Haruhi.

the first 3 days? is well above average, actually, if you get that in a month would be a good number for such series.

Both Maou-sama and Yahari's first volume barely broke 100k now thanks to the Anime's promotion, before that their sales were pretty underwhelming.

Heck, your series can make around 50k per volume that's already good.

That's pretty much the case with every LN that is hot right now, Index included.

And yeah like you said 50k prior to an anime is good.

Also Monogatari novels make more $$$ than Index, they sell about the same but for double the price nearly.

I was talking about the total sales of their first volume alone.

We'll know when it truly becomes big the moment their new volumes sell over 50-100k in the first week or two.

Index make up for that by selling more than double the total sales.

...Way more I believe.

But Monogatari novels are different. They might have similar number of pages, but it's larger in size and have more words per page (almost twice if not twice, I'd say).

And Oregairu sold 100k of its volume 1? That's a pretty big number.......

Well... not yet :heh:

Maou-sama broke 100k but Oregairu is at 90k.

Index already beaten by SAO? :twitch:

In terms of average sales per volume? Yeah soundly.

In terms of total sales? Not even close.

how much did sword art online sold?

how much sales the latest SAO novel got?

Volume 12 sold 282 427 copies over four weeks according to Oricon.

lets just wait and see how index go so far since its only been its first week. and was able to sell over 91k so far. i believe index NT6 sold over 100k as well am i correct in its first week?.

Actually in its first week NT6 also sold about 90k.