“Charlie Hebdo”: 1.9 million copies sold Wednesday and Thursday – The World

"Charlie Hebdo": 1.9 million copies sold Wednesday and Thursday – The World

Le Monde | 16/01/2015 at 12:41 • Updated 01/16/2015 to 4:01 p.m. | By Alexandre Piquard

Attached by Le Monde Lyon release messengers (MLP) responsible for its distribution specify the sales figures of the historical issue of Charlie Hebdo published Wednesday, January 14, sparking an unprecedented rush on newsstands. The newspaper has sold 1.9 million copies the first two days, calculate MLP. Announced the circulation of 5 million copies but the sale will take several weeks.

So on Wednesday, about 700,000 copies have been set up in kiosks, on almost a million distributed by courier depots. MLP found, for telephone surveys, breach of national stock to 10 h 30.

55,000 orders in Germany

On Thursday, about 900 000 additional copies have been put in place (in 1 million distributed in total) but the network has also passed the 300,000 remaining from the previous day, note the MLP, who found a stock-out at 11 h 30.

Friday, 1 million copies were again introduced, as messengers, which at noon had not yet seen, however, the exhaustion of domestic stocks.

abroad, first copies (“tens of thousands” , according MLP) were distributed Thursday. Courier recorded 150,000 copies ordered and feel that the final sales will be $ 300,000 for the entire world. Germany seems the most affected countries, with 55 000 orders alone.