One of the bestselling series of all time????

[msteck]

Hey guys, I was on Wikipedia the other day reading about the bestselling books of all time, and to my surprise Animorphs was not featured on the list.

 The list even includes bestselling series of all time as well and can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_books#List_of_best-selling_book_series .  I did a little research and couldn't find a definitive number of total copies sold anywhere, but I did find this: "According to the publisher, Animorphs, which debuted in June 1996 with much promotional fanfare, had a significantly stronger initial sell-in than did any other Scholastic series, including Goosebumps and the Baby-sitters Club. Now approaching the 10-million-copy in-print mark, Animorphs resides at the top of PW's children's paperback series bestseller list, where booksellers predict it will roost for the foreseeable future." from an article published in 1997 (also om Wikipedia).
 
Can anyone find the total number of Animorphs books that have been sold?? If 10 million were sold that early in the series release, I think that there is a good probability that the entire series has sold over the 15 million mark required to make it into the list of all-time bestselling books....

[Dameg]

More than Goosebumps?§ I don't think so... at least not in France. Maybe they said for the USA only, or USA+Canada only... and the page is about all around the world.

[Phoenix004]

GOOSEBUMPS?! TWILIGHT?! HOW THE HELL CAN THEY BE CONSIDERED BETTER THAN ANIMORPHS?!?!?! ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!    :'(

Ah, that's better. Please ignore my brief lapse in sanity and monumental increase in homicidal rage! 

[Richard]

KA Said:

We've heard the number 30 million from Scholastic, but who knows? That sounds about right. Animorphs #1 broke 2 million.

http://richardsani.conforums.com/index.cgi?board=animorphs&num=1200619182&action=display&start=50

[RYTX]

GOOSEBUMPS?! TWILIGHT?! HOW THE HELL CAN THEY BE CONSIDERED BETTER THAN ANIMORPHS?!?!?! ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!    :'(

Ah, that's better. Please ignore my brief lapse in sanity and monumental increase in homicidal rage! 

I wouldn't say better, but you can't knock goosebumps. Even kids enjoy bad horror stories
As for twilight, well that's cuz fan girls (and boy I suppose ) do run the world.
Sad but true

[Chad32]

We always knew Animorphs rocked. Dispite, or because of, the more mature themes. It's got a lot of greatness in it. Like anything else, there were ways it could have improved. There are also people who don't like Animorphs for whatever reason, and not just because of the ending or the mature themes. However, it was a great series. No doubt about it.

[senter.pat]

This was my favorite series as a kid. I read these growing up. While I also read alot of goosebumps, being 21 now, i wouldnt read those anymore, whereas i still read animorphs.

[Chad32]

I grew out of goosebumps. I used to watch fear street by the same author, but those books usually have the same general plot. Read one, and you've read 95% or so of them.

[Bladeh Mercury]

I can understand Twilight. It's everywhere. I cannot have a day without seeing something Twilight related in school. So, uh, yeah. And it only came into culture a year ago.

But not only isn't Animorphs on there, Warriors isn't on there either.

I don't understand that. Animorphs had many books published and it had a large fanbase. Don't get it. 

And Warriors was a bestseller from the start, I'm pretty sure.

[goom]

GOOSEBUMPS?! TWILIGHT?! HOW THE HELL CAN THEY BE CONSIDERED BETTER THAN ANIMORPHS?!?!?! ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!    :'(

Ah, that's better. Please ignore my brief lapse in sanity and monumental increase in homicidal rage! 

twilight? wtf? that's not even funny.

 

[Chad32]

Twilight is seriously overhyped. I have honestly never seen the movie or read the books, but what information I have gotten hasn't been enticing.

[Shark Akhrrana]

YEAH  that can't  be right Animorphs should be up there.

[Dameg]

About Twilight, call that fashion ^^' As for Harry Potter before and Goosebumps when we were younger.
And one of the biggest reason who explain why many people don't like Animorphs is the writing style: too young. Many of my friends think it's childish... They didn't read it enough to see the mature story. Because at the beginning, it's mature, yeah, but not so much... it becomes mature (more and more) later. When you read only the first books or some books written by the ghostwriters, you don't see all the mature things and the books can seem childish.

[Gumby]

GOOSEBUMPS?! TWILIGHT?! HOW THE HELL CAN THEY BE CONSIDERED BETTER THAN ANIMORPHS?!?!?! ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!    :'(

Ah, that's better. Please ignore my brief lapse in sanity and monumental increase in homicidal rage! 

Brief lapse? Don't make me laugh.

[Phoenix004]

I get that the writing in Animorphs isn't as good as Harry Potter, even though I much prefer Animorphs. Still, you can't possibly claim that Goosebumps is better written than Animorphs! Goosebumps is one of the most over-rated children's series of all time. And don't get me started on Twilight, that's the most over-rated chick flick of all time! 

I've even got to the point where I think Harry Potter is over-rated. I don't mean that in a bad way, I genuinely like the Harry Potter books, but it's so popular that I kinda feel like it's been blown out of proportion.

And anyone who thinks the Animorphs books are childish hasn't read the later books. The writing quality clearly improves as the series progresses, as the characters get older and wiser and the author's writing improves over time.