At Rizzoli, Susan Masry has been promoted to international sales manager, overseeing sales to Asia, the Indian subcontinent, Latin America,,the Middle East, and South Africa, as well as Rizzoli’s domestic export accounts. Media and intellectual property lawyer Kevin Goering has joined Norwick & Schad, which has been renamed Norwick, Schad & Goering. In their third week of listing ebook bestsellers, the NYT has purged that self-published title we identified last week and–like USA Today–allowed Lisa Gardner’s 99-cent ebook to rise to No 1. (and No. 2 on the combined list). The LA Times announced nominees for its annual book prizes […]
Bestseller Radar
In Second Week, Self-Published Novel Sneaks Onto NYT eBook Bestseller List
Though the stated policy for the New York Times new ebook bestseller lists indicates they will not count self-published books, in the second week of the new charts a self-published author has slipped through. Nancy Johnson’s HER LAST LETTER, a 99-cent ebook, appears at position No. 31 on the “also selling” roster for fiction ebooks. The title was issued by Johnson’s own Penwyck Publishing, and is the company’s only title. As Johnson writes at Amazon: “After I wrote my first novel, I was able to find a great New York literary agent, and I was thrilled. At the time, I […]
Hocking to Make the List: Three Times
When USA Today told us in our Monday report that they were “keeping a very close eye on the rapidly developing e-book marketplace” and “actively discussing how [their] list ought to evolve to reflect changes in publishing,” they really meant it. In advance of tomorrow’s new bestseller list for the week ending February 6, the paper writes today that self-epublished sensation Amanda Hocking will have three of her YA paranormals appear on the list for the first time–all among the top 50 titles. This comes as the NYT ebooks bestseller list debuts for the public with an exclusion for self-published […]
What Makes An eBook Bestseller?
So we’re still wrestling with some of the mysteries of what makes an ebook bestseller, as defined by the New York Times and others. It turns out our supposition that Lisa Gardner’s ALONE–Number One on the Kindle bestseller list with as part of a 99-cent promotion–was disqualified for listing because of price was not correct. Communications director Danielle Rhoades Ha says, “The New York Times does not exclude e-books based on price. In fact none of the e-book lists carry price.” That said, it’s not clear what other undeclared reason the paper used to not list ALONE. Over at USA […]
Arizona Tragedy Boosts Demand for Book of 9/11 Babies
The death of nine-year-old Christina Taylor Green in the Arizona shootings has brought national attention to a previously-overlooked 2002 book from HCI, FACES OF HOPE. The title presents pictures of 50 babies born on 9/11/2001, one from each state, along with messages of hope for their future, with Green’s baby picture representing Arizona. For anyone who missed the first wave of attention for the book, President Obama cited it again in last night’s nationally-televised speech: “As has already been mentioned, Christina was given to us on September 11th, 2001, one of 50 babies born that day to be pictured in […]
2010’s Top Bestsellers
Nielsen BookScan published today point-of-sales data for the week ending January 2, 2010, and updated their corresponding year-to-date bestseller lists to cover all 52 selling weeks of 2010. You will find below the top 15 print books as tracked by Nielsen BookScan in the outlets they cover for adult nonfiction, adult fiction, and overall juvenile titles. Former president George W. Bush and former first lady Laura Bush both make an otherwise eclectic nonfiction list, as Mr. Bush’s chart-topping book well outsold last year’s No. 1 nonfiction title by Sarah Palin. As expected, Stieg Larsson dominates the fiction list, with the […]