Storing and calculating sales per item

Question

The case: We have a item, on that item we have a fee. If the item has sold more than 1000 copies, the fee will drop. Therefor i need to have a place that calculates/stores total sales per item. This can then be used to set the fee when i run my stored procedure
for sales etc. 
Database explained shortly: 
The sales database looks like this: 
ItemID, SalesDate, Quantity, Name.
Example: 
1399, 2014-01-01, 2, Fompa.
1081, 2014-01-01, 13, Asddd. 
1399, 2014-01-03, 1, Fompa. 
Etc. 
The item database looks like this: 
ItemID, Name, Author, etc
Now my boss asked me if i maybe should add total sales to the item database, but how is that possible? 
I have also tried to gather all items and show the total sales, but something goes wrong, the itemID are not grouping together..
here is the query: select ItemID, QUANTITY from BOOK_SALES group by ItemID, QUANTITY order by MAX(quantity) DESC
If i get this query right, is it possible to store the query within a database table? 

Answer 1

Hey, thanks for a fast answer. 
I modified your query a little, 
select
itemid, sum(quantity) from book_sales group by
itemid order by MAX(quantity) DESC
but still, all of the itemIDs are not being grouped together. 
Results show something like this: 
1399, 981
1081, 344
1399, 199
etc..