Sachin Tendulkar’s autobiography ‘Playing it my way’ enters limca book of records:
Week 14-21 Feb,2016
● He might have bid adieu to cricket but Sachin Tendulkar continues to make records with his autobiography ‘Playing It My Way’ entering the Limca Book of Records for being the best-selling adult hardback across both fiction and non-fiction categories.
● The book, published by Hachette India, was released on November 6, 2014 and has broken all records for an adult hardback across both fiction and non-fiction categories with 1,50,289 copies confirmed on order subscriptions.
● The book’s orders, on day one, already saw it pulling ahead of both pre-order and lifetime sales of the world’s top adult hardbacks Dan Brown’s Inferno, Walter Issacson’s Steve Jobs and JK Rowling’s Casual Vacancy.
● Boria Majumdar was the co-author of Tendulkar’s autobiography.
● It also holds the record in retail value terms having logged up Rs. 13.51 crore with its cover price being Rs. 899.