The Stand (novel) Have sales increased from swine flu?

[tuttle300]

I honestly do not wish to be morbid but I am undyingly curious

Stephen's classic novel (not the comicbook) The Stand....
and the recent swine flu outbreak....
Has your office noticed any increase in sales of the book?
And of course you, as the Moderator, have the right not to disclose such info, but the mild curiosity remains.
Thanks if you do tell us-- tuttle

[Moderator]

The publisher doesn't send us sales figures but since the story has only recently broken in the news here, I wouldn't expect to see any increases yet even if there were any.

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

I was wondering the same thing, and it does coincide well with the graphic novel, it'll be interesting to see if it does.

Long days and pleasant nights

[Tooley]

I do want to throw out that my local bookstore stocks several Stephen King books per week and The Stand is usually among them. Once The Stand is on the shelf, it is usually gone by the end of the week.

[tuttle300]

I also noticed on a CNN webpage that sales of Atlas Shrugged were really flying off the shelves by the thousands and thats due to the economic crisis

[aptpupil]

Interesting question, but as Ms Mod rightly says, early days.

Perhaps sales of "I Am Legend" (both the Richard Matheson novel and the Will Smith DVD) will also receive a boost, as, if you believe all that you hear, we could soon be part of a small group of survivors fighting for existence.

Back to reality, however, I expect that novel sales generally might increase if millions of us find ourselves confined to bed for a while with this exotic new disease.

[Teddy Duchamp]

Strange to read this today as I thought of the Stand straight away when I heard the news on telly this morning.

Would it not be only Stephen King fans that would make the connection though?

[JohnDalglish]

Would it not be only Stephen King fans that would make the connection though?

Hi,

Maybe si, maybe no, I think.

For ever one of us who's read it there must be 10, or a 100, that have seen the movie on it's numerous excursions on TV world-wide.

And the graphic novel must be opening out a whole new audience for the masterpiece.

Ms Mod, it would be interesting to know what the sales of Sai Kings were, i.e does The Stand outsell IT etc, how many are coming to the journey of the Dark Tower year on year etc, and what proportion DT is to the rest of his canon?

Perhaps the information would be best available for the UK, since that's one single publisher, unlike the US.

I think it would be good for the main site.

Long days and pleasant nights

[K4driver]

i thought of the stand first thing i heard of swine flu. my opinion is Bring on Randal Flagg..

[Jasonbobdude]

Strange to read this today as I thought of the Stand straight away when I heard the news on telly this morning.

I'm not the only one, I guess. :P

I have a feeling that from now on, whenever there's a possibility of a huge pandemic disease, I'm going to think of The Stand.

I imagine that if something like that ever actually happens, then you can just head to Boulder knowing that there will be other survivors heading there as well, and you can start rebuilding society from there. Not because of 108-year-old women appearing to them in dreams, but because they read the book.