I would have expected that Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch has been selling just fine, but apparently there is a sales-effect from a 'big' prize such as the Pulitzer: as Publishers Weekly reports, Tartt's 'Goldfinch' Doubles Sales Following Pulitzer Win:
In percentage terms the poetry winner got a much bigger Pulitzer-push -- but ... yikes:
According to Nielsen BookScan, the book sold 15,079 copies last week, compared to 7,095 the week before the Pulitzer winAnd:
Publisher Little, Brown reported that total Goldfinch sales -- print and digital combined -- are nearing 1.5 million and that it has gone back to press for another 150,000 copies.Impressive.
In percentage terms the poetry winner got a much bigger Pulitzer-push -- but ... yikes:
3 Sections by Vijay Seshadri, the 2014 poetry winner, went from 11 copies to 81 copies (353 copies sold to date).