Diamond released its October 2019 sales numbers over the weekend and ICv2 has extrapolated those and determined actual unit sales. These numbers are for Diamond’s direct sales in North America only and don’t include Diamond UK or the bookstore market. It’s worth reading the additional information under the sales charts.
For the purposes of the AE Index, where we record initial sales month, Two Artist Edition style books were published in October 2019.
| # | Title | Sold |
| 133 | John Byrne’s Marvel Classics Artifact Edition | 768 |
| N/A | Frank Thorne’s Ghita: An Erotic Treasury Volume II | <227 |
Diamond sales will never accurately represent or report the Artist’s Edition format market because it’s too small of a data pool. We won’t know more until publishers are willing to share their sales data.
