With reports that Amazon will start listing paid Kindle bestsellers on their site at an unspecified time in the future (as they have done promotionally via Publishers Lunch since the beginning of 2009), we were interested in the variations in bestsellers among different platforms. Though not completely equivalent comparisons because of dating (which particularly shows on the Sebastian Junger’s May 11 release), take a look at the overall market–represented by USA Today, which does incorporate Kindle sales–against four of the ebookstores. The iBookstore stands apart with Sh*t My Dad Says at No 1 for much of this week, while the […]
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Awards, People and More
Colman Andrews won the James Beard Foundation’s cookbook of the year award for THE COUNTRY COOKING OF IRELAND as Claudia Roden‘s A BOOK OF MIDDLE EASTERN FOOD entered the cookbook hall of fame. Click through for the 11 category winners, including Thomas Keller‘s AD HOC AT HOME for the general cooking award.Full list Amanda Patten has joined Quirk Packaging as editor. She had been at Touchstone Fireside division for eight years. Jessica Krakoski will join Cave Henricks Communications as a publicity manager in May and will relocate to the company’s Austin headquarters in August. Most recently she was publicist at […]
USA Today Adds Barnes & Noble and Sony eBook Data
USA Today has extended their leadership role as the first major national bestseller list to include Kindle sales data with today’s announcement that they will also incorporate digital sales information from both Barnes & Noble and Sony’s estores.
Macmillan Has No. 1 Bestseller–At BN.com
By Sunday afternoon Andrew Young’s just-released THE POLITICIAN from Thomas Dunne Books, a unit of Macmillan, rose to No. 1-bestseller status at Barnesandnoble.com. The book, which ranked as high as No. 4 at Amazon, has declined to No. 24 at the site–not surprising, since as a Macmillan title is not available for sale there. Another clear riser is Hilary Mantel’s WOLF HALL, which has fallen from No. 69 at Amazon recently down to No. 174, while in turn moving up at BN.com, cracking their top 100 at 73, well up from its sales rank of 271 on January 29.BN bestseller […]
Some Macmillan Bestsellers Start Falling at Amazon, Rising at BN.com
Working from posted online bestseller lists at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.com (and using historical data already captured through the PM Book Tracker), you can see that at least some Macmillan book sales would appear to already be shifting to BN.com from Amazon: * Andrew Young’s The Politician is down to 10 on Amazon’s list and falling, while ranking No. 4 at BN.com * Atul Gawande’s The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right is now at 49 on Amazon, down from 34 last night–and has risen from 112 up to 49 at BN.com in the same time period. * […]
Bestsellers of the Year, In Canada
BookNet Canada’s point-of-sale tracking service published their lists of bestselling books for the year (through the week ending December 13), including: Top 5 Overall 1. The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown 2. Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer 3. Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer 4. New Moon, Stephenie Meyer 5. The Book of Negroes, Lawrence Hill Top 5 Hardcover Adult Fiction 1. The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown 2. The Host, Stephenie Meyer 3. An Echo in the Bone, Diana Gabaldon 4. The Associate, John Grisham 5. Twenties Girl, Sophie Kinsella Top 5 Hardcover Non-Fiction 1. Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell […]