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4:42 pm - 08/03/2008

"breaking dawn" sells over 250,000 copies in first day



Borders Group, Inc. today announced that its approximately 1,000 Borders and Waldenbooks stores throughout the U.S. and its Borders.com site sold more than a quarter million copies of Stephenie Meyer's "Breaking Dawn" in total on its first day of sales, Saturday, Aug. 2. The book was so hotly anticipated that the number of pre-orders the retailer received for "Breaking Dawn" was second only in its history to the Harry Potter books.

"Breaking Dawn" is the fourth and final installment in Meyer's "Twilight" saga. It officially went on sale beginning at 12:01 a.m. Saturday and was snapped up by eager fans, hundreds of thousands of whom attended special midnight release parties to get the book the moment it became available. The first-day "Breaking Dawn" sales total is nearly 10 times what the retailer's first-day sales were for "Eclipse," the third book in the series, illustrating the saga's fast-growing popularity.

Borders Group estimates that more than 225,000 fans attended midnight release parties at its Borders and Waldenbooks stores nationwide that lasted until the early morning hours, where fans of Stephenie Meyer and the popular "Twilight" series participated in costume contests, trivia competitions, debates and a host of other fun activities.

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[info]tankmachine 3rd-Aug-2008 08:50 pm (UTC)
lmao
[info]nicolaroberts 3rd-Aug-2008 08:51 pm (UTC)
I hate that I was one of those copies. I hated it and I had no expectations at all. I didn't even think it was possible.
[info]leprosy_tickles 3rd-Aug-2008 09:01 pm (UTC)
me too, i held my head down in shame while i was in the book store
[info]zombiebunney 3rd-Aug-2008 09:27 pm (UTC)
Agreed - I went into reading the book with an open mind and shut it with a WTF?!?!
[info]onmulberryst 3rd-Aug-2008 09:54 pm (UTC)
urgh i feel... hmm let's see
disappointed
betrayed
ashamed
disgusted
and many other
[info]athees 3rd-Aug-2008 10:02 pm (UTC)
Same here. Ugh. What a waste of my precious earned money. I wonder if I can return it? Lol.
[info]joaniemaloney 3rd-Aug-2008 10:26 pm (UTC)
Check your receipt!
Shouldn't you be able to at least receive store credit if not a full refund if it's in good condition? Provided you haven't ripped out any pages in frustration already.

:/
[info]zgirl714 3rd-Aug-2008 10:37 pm (UTC)
You can totally return. Bookstores are always getting books returned.
[info]green_rose 3rd-Aug-2008 10:41 pm (UTC)
I'm sure you can return it. One time at the bookstore I work at a lady came in with a book, and said her reason for returning it was that she finished reading it. We didn't even know how to respond, but ultimately after informing her we're not a library, we did the return anyway.

Just return it and say someone got you a copy as a gift.
[info]wifeofset 4th-Aug-2008 06:25 pm (UTC)
If I'd paid more than 9 dollars for it I'd have found where Stephenie Meyer lived and demanded a refund from her personally..plus the 4 hours I spent reading it at my current 30 an hour rate :P
[info]lil_pixiedevil 3rd-Aug-2008 10:05 pm (UTC)
iawtc :(
[info]horizongold 3rd-Aug-2008 10:47 pm (UTC)
same
[info]its_me_cathy 4th-Aug-2008 04:38 am (UTC)
I am reading it now and I am APPALLED

wtf Smeyer?
[info]bounded_woman 4th-Aug-2008 10:19 am (UTC)
I feel worse, read the first chapter at borders. Then magically found the whole book pages scanned online. Get an email from amazon saying they shipped my pre-order on the 1st. FOUND THE FUCKFEST OF FAIL IN CUP from chapters 3 and on (last read up till chap 22 praying it got better)... now I have the book coming and... yeah I fail so hard

But not as hard as Failcob and the loch ness monster....
[info]bb_g 3rd-Aug-2008 08:51 pm (UTC)
awwww, here it goes.
[info]isthatlatin 3rd-Aug-2008 08:52 pm (UTC)
[info]lazaro_jack 3rd-Aug-2008 08:54 pm (UTC)
there is a kenan and kel marathon on the n right now.
[info]rockthecliche 3rd-Aug-2008 08:51 pm (UTC)
I read the first three chapters at Borders today AND I WANTED TO VOMIT OVER HOW TERRIBLE IT WAS.

idgi.
[info]zephyerz 3rd-Aug-2008 08:53 pm (UTC)
Lmao my sister works and Borders and every time some one asked her where they could find the books she would say "seriously, you're looking for THAT?"
[info]juanitatequila 3rd-Aug-2008 08:57 pm (UTC)
LOLOL!!

Gosh this makes me wanna work at a bork store even more. xD
[info]rockthecliche 3rd-Aug-2008 08:58 pm (UTC)
hahahha, oh man, your sister's WIN.

but seriously. it was so reminiscent of fanfic I wrote. BACK WHEN I WAS 12.
[info]noplanesgo 3rd-Aug-2008 09:07 pm (UTC)
tell her to keep it up haha
[info]beautifiers 3rd-Aug-2008 09:57 pm (UTC)
LOLOL
[info]green_rose 3rd-Aug-2008 10:42 pm (UTC)
Ha, every time someone asks for them at the bookstore I work at, it's so crazy hard to hold my laughter, especially when it's like a 45-year-old man.
[info]hypocrisyetal 3rd-Aug-2008 10:07 pm (UTC)
Okay, what's so bad about it?
[info]mycenae 4th-Aug-2008 11:01 pm (UTC)
I went to my local Borders to read it in-store and they had all the copies behind the counter. I was deeply chagrined. So I went to a supermarket with a Starbucks and sat and read it there. For maybe an hour. And then I left. Due to fail.
[info]fitfortheunfit 3rd-Aug-2008 08:51 pm (UTC)
who are the idiots buying them?
[info]brandnewrock182 3rd-Aug-2008 08:55 pm (UTC)
my cousin :[
[info]fauxromantic 3rd-Aug-2008 08:58 pm (UTC)
me :(
[info]mel_in_tights 3rd-Aug-2008 09:00 pm (UTC)
they better not be friends of mine or I'm never talking to them again.
[info]strong_glad 4th-Aug-2008 08:29 am (UTC)
omg your icon. love it.
[info]leprosy_tickles 3rd-Aug-2008 09:02 pm (UTC)
me, lol
[info]yunaresuka 3rd-Aug-2008 09:05 pm (UTC)
me
[info]bellichka 3rd-Aug-2008 09:19 pm (UTC)
:( :(
[info]earmuffitforme 3rd-Aug-2008 09:26 pm (UTC)
SORRY... I WON'T BE MAKING THAT MISTAKE AGAIN. LOL
[info]gogetemcowboy 3rd-Aug-2008 09:31 pm (UTC)
this made me LOL
[info]1voice 3rd-Aug-2008 09:32 pm (UTC)
my friends, who I had to see at Borders when I was there on Friday picking up the new Death Cab for Cutie CD
[info]abarnes19 3rd-Aug-2008 09:34 pm (UTC)
me...i want my money back
[info]astronof 3rd-Aug-2008 09:50 pm (UTC)
idk don't they have internet.
[info]dreamerchan 3rd-Aug-2008 09:52 pm (UTC)
my friends :(
[info]treasurewindow 3rd-Aug-2008 10:07 pm (UTC)
My little sister.
[info]paper_bones 3rd-Aug-2008 10:25 pm (UTC)
ME! And proud!
[info]cookie_nut 3rd-Aug-2008 10:54 pm (UTC)
Not me. I downloaded them off the intrawebs.
[info]sweet_tiff4prez 4th-Aug-2008 02:48 am (UTC)
LOL im not buying that shit
I download to read..
not wasting the money. Horrible writing but it brings the lolz and its addicting :/
[info]ceeceeblack 4th-Aug-2008 09:42 pm (UTC)
*hangs head in shame* me.
[info]zephyerz 3rd-Aug-2008 08:52 pm (UTC)
in b4 "NESSIE LOVE SHIELD!"
[info]rumms 3rd-Aug-2008 08:52 pm (UTC)
The misogyny in these books makes my blood boil.
[info]summergirl719 3rd-Aug-2008 08:52 pm (UTC)
mine too! It kills me that teenage girls take her words at face value.
[info]hustle_rose010 3rd-Aug-2008 08:56 pm (UTC)
But Bella is really a feminist because she made the ~*CHOICE*~ to not have no life or interests outside of Edward. Don't you get it?! Gosh.
[info]hustle_rose010 3rd-Aug-2008 08:59 pm (UTC)
*have no life

Double negatives ftl.
[info]cookie_nut 3rd-Aug-2008 10:55 pm (UTC)
LOL
[info]spellotaped 3rd-Aug-2008 08:57 pm (UTC)
i don't see how all the girls can be so in love with edward. he's a shitty boyfriend. he physically kept bella from seeing her best friend, after abandoning her out of nowhere.
[info]delleve 3rd-Aug-2008 09:04 pm (UTC)
ditto. it's really sort of disgusting.
[info]lastingchances 3rd-Aug-2008 09:19 pm (UTC)
i agree 100%. gross.
[info]inward 3rd-Aug-2008 10:06 pm (UTC)
Yeah. I mean, I almost feel bad about it but anyone who actually admires Edward Cullen or Twilight automatically loses a lot of respect from me. I would also be interested in hearing more of what you wrote about Twilight!
[info]its_me_cathy 4th-Aug-2008 04:40 am (UTC)
The Barnes and Noble woman told me the release is bigger than Harry Potter and this is one of the reasons that really bothers me. The Twilight series is SO patriarchal and immature, there is no empowerment for the women whatsoever. It is the dreck I used to write when I was 12!
[info]shilohninejulia 3rd-Aug-2008 08:52 pm (UTC)
wow. you have a duggars icon.
[info]summergirl719 3rd-Aug-2008 08:52 pm (UTC)
Dude, I am dying to know how many people returned Breaking Dawn, because I read part of it today, and it was 1000x worse that I was expecting it to be.
Holy crap.
[info]aintbovvered 3rd-Aug-2008 08:54 pm (UTC)
So am I. I was going to buy it until I read chapters 1-14. Shit fails bad.

It doesn't stop me from looking for the torrent entire book, though. :|
[info]summergirl719 3rd-Aug-2008 08:55 pm (UTC)
Oh man, it gets so much worse! You have no idea...
[info]winks 3rd-Aug-2008 09:04 pm (UTC)
The last page of this post has links.
[info]rainon_route9 3rd-Aug-2008 09:11 pm (UTC)
I actually returned my copy this morning and got my seventeen dollars and twenty two cents back. Most of the people I know who bought the book plan on doing the same.
[info]vaguely_dirty 3rd-Aug-2008 09:16 pm (UTC)
Oi, I did it. I bought it yesterday, finished it, and then returned it today. I bought the Aviator, Bend it Like Beckham, and Troy with the return money. XD

I wasn't expecting quality, obvs, but omg it was worse than I could have ever imagined.
[info]dieseled 3rd-Aug-2008 10:15 pm (UTC)
I returned my copy earlier today (after reading just the first part and the first 3 chapters of the 3rd part) and told the lady behind the counter it was the worst novel I had ever read, and I didn't even read all of it.

She got really pissed at me. lolllll
[info]cookie_nut 3rd-Aug-2008 10:59 pm (UTC)
I half want to ask for spoilers. I admit this series is a guilty pleasure, but only in that (1) I don't take it seriously and (2) willingly acknowledge that it's shit on a stick.

Still, I have a hell of a time getting through Eclipse because it was so bad. Are you telling me it's even WORSE?
[info]jearsforqueers 3rd-Aug-2008 11:33 pm (UTC)
I pre-ordered it fron B & N back in Jan, and it should be here either tomorrow or Tuesday.

As soon as it's at my house, I will be taking it back, along with The Host.
[info]thirteenfluidoz 3rd-Aug-2008 08:52 pm (UTC)
I found a copy online and I want to read it... but I don't
[info]emeyea 3rd-Aug-2008 09:09 pm (UTC)
omg where did you find it? i don't even know if i'm going to like this series or not. But I just read the first book and can't really figure out how i feel on it.
[info]onmulberryst 3rd-Aug-2008 09:55 pm (UTC)
don't
it'll ruin the series for you
you are lucky to have not read it, enjoy the first three while you can
[info]thirteenfluidoz 3rd-Aug-2008 09:56 pm (UTC)
but I haven't read the first three yet and I'm reading it for the lulz
[info]elijahxwhore 3rd-Aug-2008 10:05 pm (UTC)
I want to read it for the lolz! Where'd you find the online copy?
[info]flockofplatypi 3rd-Aug-2008 11:26 pm (UTC)
I bet you're sick of people asking, but I really need the lolz. Where'd you find it?
[info]ricey11 3rd-Aug-2008 11:49 pm (UTC)
Seriously, where did you find it?
I bought the first three and regret it so I don't want to spend fifteen plus on this shit.
[info]eraticschematic 4th-Aug-2008 12:34 am (UTC)
I hate to be part of the crowd asking, but where did you find it? I had the most horrible day ever and the lolz would definitely be therapeutic.
[info]kris_terror 4th-Aug-2008 01:38 am (UTC)
link?
[info]kr1stina09x 3rd-Aug-2008 08:52 pm (UTC)
nessie.
[info]iftherainstops 3rd-Aug-2008 09:53 pm (UTC)
Lives!
[info]candy_love521 3rd-Aug-2008 10:56 pm (UTC)
was one of the two the second was jacob and no I don't ship nessie jacob eww
[info]tripmeup 3rd-Aug-2008 08:52 pm (UTC)
I don't get the hype.
[info]abiding 3rd-Aug-2008 08:54 pm (UTC)
Didn't you know that teen pregnancy and underage marriage and baby pedo are the new things to obsess about? (No, I'm not joking.)
[info]_brina 3rd-Aug-2008 08:52 pm (UTC)
I'm only halfway down, but this book is fails so bad.
[info]candy_love521 3rd-Aug-2008 10:56 pm (UTC)
Have you gotten to the part where they see Charlie again?
[info]aintbovvered 3rd-Aug-2008 08:52 pm (UTC)
Now let's see how many of those books are returned.
[info]royalia 3rd-Aug-2008 11:03 pm (UTC)
lol your icon
[info]cinecat 4th-Aug-2008 12:49 am (UTC)
all of them should be
[info]ncsujen 4th-Aug-2008 12:37 pm (UTC)
My guess is about 200,000
[info]killnghifashion 3rd-Aug-2008 08:53 pm (UTC)
I will never get my 5 hours of reading that piece of crap back.
I'm planning on returning it.
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