Amazon’s editors have announced their Best Books of the Year So Far lists. In addition to an overall Top 10 list, the etailer selects Top 10s for 12 categories of print books, and in a new twist, nine categories of Kindle books. Even on the Kindle lists, comprising 90 books in all, titles from traditional publishers dominate. The Kindle lists do include five Kindle singles (from Jon Krakauer, as well as titles by Cecelia Holland, Oliver Broudy, James Powell, and Mara Altman). The one sort-of self-published sort-of full-length title on the list is Seth Godin’s 96-page Poke the Box, from […]
