Tendulkar’s autobiography enters Limca Book of Records

It also holds the record in retail value terms having logged up Rs. 13.51 crore with its cover price being Rs. 899.

February 18, 2016 07:10 pm | Updated November 17, 2021 02:08 am IST - New Delhi

He might have bid adieu to cricket but Sachin Tendulkar continues to make records with the 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.

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