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People, Etc.: NYT Changes Advice Lists

by on April 18, 2013 in Authors, Awards, Bestseller Radar, Free

  As of the April 28 lists, the New York Times is changing their Advice, How-To and Miscellaneous bestseller lists. The separate hardcover and paperback lists--each listing 10 positions, with another 5 "also selling" titles--are combined into a single list with 20 numbered positions. The new combined list also incorporates…

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Bookselling: WSJ on ResultSource and Paid Bestsellers; UK Indies Decline

by on February 22, 2013 in Authors, Bestseller Radar, Bookstores, Industry Statistics, International News

The old saw of authors "buying" their way onto bestseller lists through carefully timed bulk orders gets a fresh twist in Friday's WSJ, which reports on the San Diego-based company ResultSource. The marketing firm, according to the paper, charges authors "thousands of dollars for its services" to buy copies of…

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Amazon's Many 2012 Bestseller Lists

by on December 14, 2012 in Bestseller Radar, eNews, Self-publishing

Amazon announced their bestselling books of the year, which always makes for some interesting analysis. The top-selling non-Fifty Shades books were Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl (the No. 2 adult print seller--and the No. 4 ebook) and Mark Owen's No Easy Day (the No. 3 adult ebook). But those "announced" lists…

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More NYT Bestseller List Changes, As YA and Middle Grade Get Separate Lists

by on December 6, 2012 in Bestseller Radar, Children's

The New York Times will split its children's Chapter Book bestseller lists into separate middle grade and young adult lists beginning with the December 16 issue (though the lists will be online Friday and were sent around to the trade last night.) Those two lists, as well as the series…

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Digital Book World Launches Aggregated eBook Bestseller List

by on August 19, 2012 in Bestseller Radar, eNews, Sales

Digital Book World has launched a weekly set of ebook bestseller lists that aggregates the previous full week's sales ranking data from Amazon, Nook, Google, Kobo and Sony into an overall list of the top 25 selling books, as well as four additional top 10 lists organized by price tiers:…

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Sales After Oprah Endorsement Are Good, But Are They Wild?

by on June 14, 2012 in Bestseller Radar, Industry Statistics, Opening Sales

The launch of Oprah's Book Club 2.0 on May 30 with the selection of Cheryl Strayed's WILD--and national media attention for Oprah's return to book recommendations--has boosted the book's profile and sales for certain. But will the cable + online Oprah profile come anywhere close to the impact of her…

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Scholastic Adds 12.5 Million Units of Hunger Games In 2012

by on March 28, 2012 in Bestseller Radar, Statistics

Scholastic says that the three Hunger Games titles have over 36.5 million units in print in the US: over 17.5 million copies of THE HUNGER GAMES; 10 million copies of CATCHING FIRE; and 9 million copies of Mockingjay. In January the publisher said they had 24 million units in print,…

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How Do eBooks Change the 2011 Bestsellers?

by on January 12, 2012 in Bestseller Radar

USA Today has published their list of the top 100 bestsellers for 2011. As the only major list that has used combined print and ebook data for the entire year, they provide the best look at the true, overall bestsellers for the year. We wondered how much the inclusion of…

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E Ink Sales Drop Far More Than Expected; Kickstarter Funds Over $5 Million of Publishing

by on January 10, 2012 in Bestseller Radar, Direct publishing, eNews, eReaders

E Ink Holdings surprised Asian stock markets Monday with worse-than-expected December sales, with the company's shares dropping the maximum allowed in a single day. December sales declined 55 percent from the prior month, and were down 57 percent compared to December 2010. November's sales were 33 percent lower than October,…

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How Many Self-Published Authors Were Bestsellers In 2011?

by on January 8, 2012 in Bestseller Radar, Direct publishing, eNews, Self-publishing

Self-publishing success stories were another big, perhaps overplayed, theme in 2011, and the new year starts off with the transition of Amanda Hocking bestsellers to St. Martin's. The first in her Trylle Trilogy SWITCHED was reissued on January, with both the ebook and 336-page paperback priced at $8.99. TORN follows…

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