Those who follow the video news service ROME REPORTS will note that today, it has a report on book sales for Light of the World in most of its major language editions. While I appreciate this agency for its usual prompt video postings of papal news, I must point out that the figures in its report today are from a mid-December story I belatedly saw in RELIGION EN LIBERTAD from Dec. 16, which I translated and posted on page 172 of this thread. It's been almost a month since then, and surely the figures must be better! Here's the first part of the story...
LOTW sold about 500,000
in its first three weeks
Translated from
December 16, 2010
Benedict XVI's interview-book with Peter Seewald,
Light of the World, sold 75,000 copies in Spain in less than three weeks since it went on sale on November 24.
Herder, its original German publisher, said that it was about to launch the seventh printing in Spanish and the third in Catalan. The book has now been translated into 16 languages, and other translations are on deck.
In Germany, it sold 200,000 in 3 weeks, 150,000 in Italian; and 75,000 in English and French.
"For many religious bookstores, it is the book of the season, and will most likely be the book of the year in the category of religion," a Herder statement said....
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