The first sales figures are a good indicator of the commercial career of a book. Five days after its sale in June 2019, the book of Nicolas Sarkozy, the Passions, had been, according to the agency GFK, bought by 25,000 readers. In three days (from Friday 24 to Sunday 26 July), The Time of storms, is already sold 22 000 copies, with a setting of 178 000 copies. In comparison, Joël Dicker, with The Riddle of the chamber 622 (ed de Fallois) so far number one in sales, won over 17 000 players, but in seven days of sale... Nicolas Sarkozy was on Monday to the 20 hours of TF1, a good vector for hearing (more than 5 million viewers) and prescription. "Yesterday [Monday], the Fnac and Amazon harboured 4 700 sales digital with a peak significant after 21 hours that is to say, at the end of the journal of TF1," says Murielle Beyer, director general of editions of the Observatory.
The editions of the Observatory, it does not hide its satisfaction. And extrapolating already final sales guns. Passions was finally passed 300 000 units. The work of Nicolas Sarkozy, who narrates the first two years of his five-year term, should logically be at least as good as the one which evoked the beginnings in politics (1975), until his accession to the Elysée palace (2007). A performance in a publishing market that is expected to be down 15% year-over-year...
