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>>>- While not scientific, polls and surveys by different book clubs and even the Library of Congress have Atlas as a (distant) second, behind the Bible
>>>- Somewhere around 7.5 million copies sold (and what is significant is that over a million copies have sold just in the last 2 years)
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>>Jeez. Stephen Hawkings' "A brief History of Time" sold around 10 million copies.
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>Definitely higher. Still, look at the sales of the Harry Potter books. :o)

Absolutely. I just wanted to point out that even a book on science outsold Atlas.