Retailers consist of small and large for-profit businesses that sell products directly to consumers. To realize a profit, retailers search for products that coincide with their business objectives and find suppliers with the most competitive pricing. Generally, a retailer can buy small quantities of an item from a distributor or a wholesaler.
Fire and Fury sells half a million copies. Combined sales of hardcover, e-book and audio versions of Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury now top 500,000. Associated Press January 18, 2018 11:41am A company that tracks retail book sales says Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury sold more than 190,000 hardcover copies last week.
While it isn't clear exactly how many copies of a book must be sold to break into a slot on the list, a 2013 study of Amazon's best-sellers list for a two-week period by Publishers Weekly found that a title in Amazon's top five averages 1,094 print copies sold across all channels, including other retailers, on a typical day.