{"id":2122541,"date":"2026-09-01T14:09:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T11:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2122541"},"modified":"2026-09-01T14:09:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T11:09:31","slug":"youtube-star-mrbeast-is-now-trying-to-get-into-books-but-his-first-release-is-reportedly-on-track-to-be-a-historic-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2122541","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Star MrBeast Is Now Trying to Get Into Books, but His First Release Is Reportedly ‘On Track to Be a Historic Bomb’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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YouTube star Jimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, has co-written a novel \u2014 but the book has reportedly performed poorly in pre-order sales.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The Most Dangerous Games, Donaldson’s thriller debut written in collaboration with Alex Cross author James Patterson, is currently “on track to be a historic bomb,” according to news service Semafor<\/a>, via The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>. <\/p>\n

A fictionalized version of a large-scale MrBeast survival game, the novel tells the story of 100 strangers who sign up for a contest to win a billion dollars. The only thing standing in their way? A series of deadly challenges that begin on the thinning ice of Antarctica \u2014 oh, and the deadly allegiances that form between the other players through the contest. <\/p>\n

It all sounds a bit like Battle Royale meets Squid Game, which you would think would be a winning formula. But apparently there are concerns that the book’s presales numbers “numbering in the four digits” is just a “tiny fraction of what th epublisher will need to justify Patterson’s and YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson’s hefty fees.”<\/p>\n

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The Most Dangerous Games. Image credit: HarperCollins.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Herein, it seems, lies the problem. Because while the report lists The Most Dangerous Games as being “on track to be a historic bomb,” presales in the single-digit thousands are typical for books of this kind, per a publishing source who spoke with IGN today. And time will tell how well the book sells over time, as Donaldson promotes it in YouTube videos, and as the lucrative end of year sales season nears. Indeed, the YouTuber has already appeared in a video titled “Read My Book, You Could Win $1,000,000,” which should help sell a few more copies.<\/p>\n

Still, publisher HarperCollins could be on the hook for a sizable sum regardless of how the book sells, depending on the advance paid to Donaldson and Patterson simply to secure the publishing rights and receive the manuscript. How much this was, we can but speculate.<\/p>\n