"One Piece" sets Guinness world record for selling over 500 Million issues, Eiichiro Oda surpasses J.K Rollings as the 9th best selling author ever

[Stan BiSH]

One Piece Manga Sets Guinness World Record With Over 500 Million Published

Nearly 417 million in Japan, over 100 million in 60 territories overseas

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One Piece Manga Sets Guinness World Record With Over 500 Million Published​

Shueisha announced on Thursday that Eiichiro Oda's One Piece manga has surpassed 500 million copies published worldwide as of the release of the manga's 103rd compiled book volume on the same day.

416,566,000 of those copies are in Japan, and 100 million copies are in 60 countries and territories outside of Japan. (In the past, Shueisha has used the Japanese term for "published" in reporting its manga statistics, but clarified that these figures include both print and digital copies.)​

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with the announcement Oda surpassed J.k Rollings and became the 9th best selling fiction author in history

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List of best-selling fiction authors - Wikipedia

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Author	Min. estimated sales	Max. estimated sales	Original language	Genre and/or major works	Number of books	Nationality

William Shakespeare	2 billion[1]	4 billion[2]	English	Plays and poetry e.g.A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet	42	English
Agatha Christie	2 billion[3]	4 billion[2]	English	Whodunits including the Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot series	85	British
Barbara Cartland	500 million[4]	750 million[5]	English	Romance	723	British
Danielle Steel	500 million[6]	800 million[7]	English	General fiction, Romance	179	American
Harold Robbins	750 million[8]	750 million[9]	English	Adventure	23	American
Georges Simenon	500 million[10]	700 million[11]	French	Detectives, Maigret, romans dur	570	Belgian
Enid Blyton		600 million[12]	English	Children's literature, Noddy, The Famous Five, The Secret Seven	800	English
Sidney Sheldon	370 million[13]	600 million[14]	English	Suspense	21	American
Eiichiro Oda	516.5 million[15]	516.5 million[15]	Japanese	Manga, One Piece	103	Japanese
J. K. Rowling	500 million[16]	500 million[16]	English	Harry Potter, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Cormoran Strike ,Young Adult,fantasy, crime fiction	22	British

 

[abra]

Congratulations!

I am surprised that I only recognize 4 names in the top 10: Shakespeare, Agatha Christie, Oda and JKR.

 

[Stan BiSH]

Congratulations!

I am surprised that I only recognize 4 names in the top 10: Shakespeare, Agatha Christie, Oda and JKR.

for some reason i thought that Stephen King and Tolkien would be higher

also i'm surprised that there aren't Chinese / Indian authors there, you would think that being the most popular countries would give them an edge

 

[abra]

for some reason i thought that Stephen King and Tolkien would be higher

also i'm surprised that there aren't Chinese / Indian authors there, you would think that being the most popular countries would give them an edge

I'm sure Mao's Little Red Book was distributed in such numbers that he'd be on this list but perhaps it was mostly given away to the people and not sold.

It just dawned on me that the list is restricted to fiction writers (although you could argue that Mao fits that description)