Winner takes all
Doctor Who is now officially bigger than all of us. The new Doctor Who tie-in books - the three novels plus Monsters and Villains - have sold out of their first 100,000 copy print run and have been reprinted before they even hit the shops.
A few issues of Enlightenment ago I wrote that new readers would read these new books and never want to read another Doctor Who book again - I’m glad to admit I was wrong there. When I was a little boy I shunned television and read Doctor Who books in my treehouse. Now children can do the same. All we need now are novelisations of the TV stories by Paul Magrs.
Posted by John on Saturday, May 28 at 2:01 pm
6 Comments...
I agree! I want “Target” novelizations of the new series episodes and I want them now!
Posted by Luca on 05/29 at 05:09 AM
I don’t see how you can call yourself wrong on whether or not new readers will or won’t ever read
another Doctor Who book again. You’ll probably be partly right but most likely wrong in the larger sense. Still it’s not like they have bought the next ones yet.
Posted by Ryan on 06/01 at 11:52 PM
Let’s say this huge success has made me confident that the next ones will sell well too.
Posted by John on 06/02 at 12:12 AM
I have seen these for sale in supermarkets in the UK! My understanding is that the combined print run for the first four books is 100 000 and not 100 000 each.
Posted by Mike on 06/03 at 04:02 PM
You’re right Mike, tx.
Posted by John Anderson on 06/03 at 04:06 PM
Back in early May, I pre-ordered two new Doctor Who novels on Amazon.ca (Gallifrey Chronicles and The Clockwise Man). Well, guess what? We’re almost in July and I got an email from Amazon telling me that the books are delayed 4 to 6 weeks. The ETA is now late July/early August. That’s quite telling of the popularity of the show, I think.
Too bad no one in Montreal is selling the BBC Books imprint (AFAIK)... It’d probably be faster than waiting after Amazon.
Posted by Sarah on 06/29 at 07:33 PM
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