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.
The series was an instant success: by mid-1929 over 115,000 books had been sold, and as of 2008 the books were selling over a million copies a year (the first Hardy Boys book, The Tower Treasure, alone sells over 100,000 copies a year). Worldwide, over 70 million copies of Hardy Books have been sold.