Editing The Chronicles of Narnia (section)

==Publication history==

''The Chronicles of Narnia's'' seven books have been in continuous publication since 1956, selling over 100 million copies in 47 languages and with editions in [[Braille]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Kelly |first=Clint |year=2006 |title=Dear Mr. Lewis |journal=Response |volume=29 |issue=1 |url=http://www.spu.edu/depts/uc/response/winter2k6/features/lewis.asp |access-date=22 September 2008 |quote=The seven books of Narnia have sold more than 100 million copies in 30 languages, nearly 20&nbsp;million in the last 10 years alone}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Guthmann |last=Edward |title='Narnia' tries to cash in on dual audience |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/12/11/NARNIA.TMP |work=San Francisco Chronicle |date=11 December 2005 |access-date=22 September 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120515201654/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2005%2F12%2F11%2FNARNIA.TMP |archive-date=15 May 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://inklingsfocus.com/translation_index.html |last=GoodKnight|first=Glen H. |author-link=Glen GoodKnight |title=Narnia Editions & Translations |date=3 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110303135111/http://inklingsfocus.com/translation_index.html |archive-date=3 March 2011 |access-date=6 September 2010}}</ref>

The first five books were originally published in the United Kingdom by Geoffrey Bles. The first edition of ''The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'' was released in London on 16 October 1950. Although three more books, ''Prince Caspian'', ''The Voyage of the Dawn Treader'' and ''The Horse and His Boy'', were already complete, they were not released immediately at that time, but instead appeared (along with ''The Silver Chair'') one at a time in each of the subsequent years (1951–1954). The last two books (''The Magician's Nephew'' and ''The Last Battle'') were published in the United Kingdom originally by [[The Bodley Head]] in 1955 and 1956.{{sfn|Schakel|1979|page=13}}{{sfn|Ford|2005|page=464}}

In the United States, the publication rights were first owned by [[Macmillan Publishers (United States)|Macmillan Publishers]], and later by [[HarperCollins]]. The two issued both hardcover and paperback editions of the series during their tenure as publishers, while at the same time [[Scholastic Corporation|Scholastic, Inc.]] produced paperback versions for sale primarily through direct mail order, book clubs, and book fairs. HarperCollins also published several one-volume collected editions containing the full text of the series. As noted below (see [[#Reading order|Reading order]]), the first American publisher, Macmillan, numbered the books in publication sequence, whereas HarperCollins, at the suggestion of Lewis's stepson, opted to use the series' internal chronological order when they won the rights to it in 1994. Scholastic switched the numbering of its paperback editions in 1994 to mirror that of HarperCollins.{{sfn|Ford|2005|page=24}}