Further Exploration of the Factorium

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Big, Bigger, Biggest - The Biggest Record Book

Today we have something that is not big in size or volume, for today we are going to see some facts about the Biggest Record Book (read: The record book selling most number of copies, for the number of copies sold, not the size or volume of the book, is big). Let us see something about the Biggest Record Book in terms of number of copies sold:

So the Guinness Book of World Records (logo on the right) has the Guinness World Record for The Best Selling Copyright Book in the world. Considering that it is not very big in size, it has been added in this series in terms of Number of Copies Sold. It has sold about a 100 million copies worldwide, with the 100 millionth copy being sold in November 2003. It was first published in October 1955 by Guinness Superlatives, a subsidiary of Arthur Guinness Son Co. (Park Royal) Ltd and has since gone global, selling in some 37 languages. It has been publishing a book every year since 1955 and has had various authors. It broke the previous existing World Record in June 2001.

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