Dark Horse Comics' absolution of The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia album ranked at #1 on Nielsen BookScan's rankings for the anniversary of January 28-February 3. The fanbook awash about 60,000 copies in its aboriginal week, assault out Danielle Steel's Until the End of Time and Betrayal novels.

The Nielsen BookScan rankings represent sales at Barnes & Noble and added book chains, absolute bookshops, and online purchases — but not sales at banana book stores, Walmart, and some added venues. Publishers Weekly addendum that outlets advertisement to BookScan annual for about 80% of absolute book sales.

The 248-page album album covers the abounding history of The Legend of Zelda authorization and includes an addition by acclaimed bold artisan and ambassador Shigeru Miyamoto. It aswell includes the official agenda of The Legend of Zelda games, abstraction art, advice on the making-of of the franchise, and a benefit manga by The Legend of Zelda manga artisan Akira Himekawa.

The book had usurped E.L. James' Fifty Shades Trilogy at the top of Amazon's Best Sellers account in August.

Update: Dark Horse Comics additionally appear on Friday that the book has aswell ranked #1 on the Wall Street Journal and New York Times novel lists. The administrator currently has about 400,000 copies of the book in print.