Bestseller Stat Shot
Chances are you’ve heard of Anna Todd and After, her One Direction fan fiction series. It’s raked in over a billion reads on Wattpad, and earlier this year Simon & Schuster splashed out mid–six figures to acquire world and audio rights to the series. The first print edition landed on October 21 in the form of a $16 expanded and revised paperback--but would readers pay for a book that they could read for free on Wattpad? By and large, no. Here are the vital stats for the book’s print and Wattpad editions.
| After (Book 1 in the After series) | |
| Cover Price | $16 |
| Page Count | 592 pages |
| Weight | 1.1 pounds |
| Total Sales | 5,456 |
| Wattpad | |
| After (Book 1 in the After series) | |
| Cover Price | free |
| Page Count | 287 |
| Weight | – |
| Total Reads | 268,073,037 |
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