'Star Wars' By the numbers

by Staff -- Publishers Weekly, 5/23/2005

70 million: Total number of Star Wars–related books in print worldwide

1,700: Number of Star Wars titles in print worldwide

2: Number of novelizations officially connected with Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith

72: Number of different collectible M&M packages connected with the film

3.1 million: Copies of narrative (non-illustrated) books sold of the current trilogy (1999–2004)

13.7 million: Copies of books based on the first trilogy (1977–1984) sold

$41 million: Amount one house, DK, lost on tie-ins for Star Wars I: The Phantom Menace

7: Number of houses involved with tie-ins for Revenge of the Sith

2,792: Number of pages in Star Wars–licensed books out this year

6.5 million: Number of Web pages the term "Revenge of the Sith" turns up on Google

$25.95: Cover price of Del Rey's Revenge of the Sith hardcover

$29.95: Price of a life-size poster of Yoda