{"id":93736,"date":"2025-08-26T10:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T10:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/93736\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T10:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T10:50:10","slug":"julia-donaldson-becomes-first-author-to-break-the-nielseniq-bookscan-50-million-unit-barrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/93736\/","title":{"rendered":"Julia Donaldson becomes first author to break the NielsenIQ BookScan 50-million-unit barrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/17.jpg\" alt=\"Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler \u00a9 Urszula Soltys\" title=\"Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler \u00a9 Urszula Soltys\" class=\"aos-Image aos-W100\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler \u00a9 Urszula Soltys<\/p>\n<p>Julia Donaldson has increased her lead at the top of the all-time author volume chart, becoming the first writer to sell more than 50 million units through British bookshops since accurate records began.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You&#8217;ve hit your free article limit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Serious about the book trade?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/subscribe?utm_source=thebookseller&amp;utm_medium=paywall&amp;utm_campaign=anon+user+paywall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Join thousands of industry professionals who never miss a story.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sign in or create a free account to unlock 2 articles a month and receive tailored newsletters with the latest from the book trade.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Want full access? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebookseller.com\/subscribe?utm_source=thebookseller&amp;utm_medium=paywall&amp;utm_campaign=anon+user+paywall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a> from just \u00a33.65 a week and unlock full access to exclusive interviews, rights deals, industry data and more:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\ud83d\udddeWeekly print copies of The Bookseller magazine\u00a0<br \/>\ud83d\udcf1Unlimited access to thebookseller.com (single user)\u00a0<br \/>\ud83d\udc68\u200d\ud83d\udcbbThe Bookseller digital edition for desktop, tablet and mobile\u00a0<br \/>\ud83d\udc8cSubscriber-only newsletters\u00a0<br \/>\ud83d\udcdaTwice-yearly Buyer\u2019s Guides worth \u00a330\u00a0<br \/>\ud83d\udca1Discounts on events and conferences<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler \u00a9 Urszula Soltys Julia Donaldson has increased her lead at the top of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[457,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-93736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}