Harry Potter is Out, Twilight is In, HP VS Twilight/Rowling VS Meyer stuff Options

[Tung]

J.K. Rowling can pass the torch over to Stephenie Meyer now.

Meyer's Breaking Dawn, the fourth book in her Twilight series sold 1.3 million copies on its first day of release, August 2nd.

For those of you bad with math, that's A LOT of books!

This past Friday night, thousands of bookstores and libraries hosted midnight parties across the country to help fuel these astounding figures.

We mentioned previously that due to the overwhelming demand for the title, the publisher went back for a second printing of 500,000 copies prior to publication, to the current in-print figure of 3.7 million copies.

The publisher has also confirmed the upcoming publication of The Twilight Saga: The Official Guide.

[superstitious]

I think that the major difference between the two is that while Twilight and Stephenie Meyer are enjoying a huge success right now, Harry Potter is revered as a classic and will more than likely always be looked at that way.

Twilight, like the vampire novels Anne Rice writes, will also see great success for the years to come but will never be held in as high of a regard as the Potter series. They are fun books, nothing more.

The Harry Potter series is arguably up there with the Chronicles of Narnia and Lord of the Rings series as far as classic novel series go. Meyer will never even be in the same sentence with Lewis or Tolkien.