{"id":22576,"date":"2002-11-07T22:30:39","date_gmt":"2002-11-08T04:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2002\/11\/07\/fotr-extended-dvd-pre-sales-looking-healthy\/"},"modified":"2002-11-07T22:30:39","modified_gmt":"2002-11-08T04:30:39","slug":"fotr-extended-dvd-pre-sales-looking-healthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2002\/11\/07\/22576-fotr-extended-dvd-pre-sales-looking-healthy\/","title":{"rendered":"FOTR Extended DVD pre-sales looking healthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">If you check Amazon.com&#8217;s DVD section for current &#8220;top sellers,&#8221; you&#8217;ll note that the FOTR &#8220;Extended Edition&#8221; is actually outselling the &#8220;Star Wars Episode II&#8221; DVD&#8230; and has been doing so for about a week now. This, unless I&#8217;m utterly mistaken, is an unprecedented amount of business for a second-release DVD.. especially considering that new &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; releases are usually predicted as the best-sellers of their respective years.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon.com is the biggest of the online stores, and their pre-sales are usually a pretty good indicator of what national sales will eventually look like.<\/p>\n<p>In other words: SW2 and FOTR:SE go head-to-head in stores on the same exact day, and so far the super-hyped high-profile SW2 first release is being outsold (at least according to Amazon.com&#8217;s numbers) by the less-hyped follow-up release for FOTR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you check Amazon.com&#8217;s DVD section for current &#8220;top sellers,&#8221; you&#8217;ll note that the FOTR &#8220;Extended Edition&#8221; is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-spy-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-5S8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}