Talk:List of best-selling books#Hopelessly incomplete

The source for the 40 million figure is an article that itself doesn't have a source. The 40 mil figure seems to come from the Working Partners/Coolabi website (they're the company that owns the rights to Warriors I believe) https://coolabi.com/books/#books-working-partners. There's a little '40 million sold' sticker on the image for the Warriors series - clicking the image brings up text that says there's 37 books in the series. This must only be referring to the main series, as in the middle of 2019 (which is when that article that mentions 40 million copies was written) there was in fact 37 books in the main series, with the 38th published later that year. This means that the 40 million figure only refers to the main warriors series and does not include the super editions, manga, novellas, or field guides.

I've never edited wikipedia before and i don't want to do something wrong so I'm just making a suggestion to replace the article source with the coolabi website instead. I'm guessing the warriors series, including ALL the books, is well into the 50 million category at least as of this year, but without a more current source i guess it's unable to be moved up. 159.196.110.98 (talk) 00:42, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

manga at is a type of book and although no individual volume enters the list on the list of best selling series atleast 50 enter prime example being one piece that would take the second place in the list Iamthejuan000 (talk) 00:29, 4 January 2025 (UTC)

Aren't Manga Japanese comics?

Regarding some of the claims in the 2nd Paragraph, are books like the Bible, Quran, or Little Red Book best sellers? or most published, as surely a large proportion of those books are given away for free (My copies of all of them were free)? Isn't that the best ground to exclude them? — Preceding unsigned comment added by TC Murphy (talk • contribs) 01:26, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

Seriously, why are neither the individual books nor the series part of this list? As it's without a doubt the most sold fantasy series of all time! 2A02:8070:783:DBA0:C5F5:44F1:C1C2:B165 (talk) 08:58, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

:The reason for its exclusion is explained in the third paragraph of the lead. CodeTalker (talk) 15:07, 27 April 2025 (UTC)

Isn't The Pilgrim's Progress supposed to be one of the best-selling books of all time? I read somewhere that it's history's best-selling book, besides the Bible. I cane to verify but couldn't even find it on the page. Is there a reason it's not included? 49.207.196.114 (talk) 13:01, 6 May 2025 (UTC)

:No good sources, probably? Would be surprised if it really is that high on the list (if we could find reliable numbers), but it certainly would be on it. This list, while highly informative, will never be anywhere complete probably, or at least until some reliable source would produce their own, more complete list. Fram (talk) 13:09, 6 May 2025 (UTC)