As you consider this year’s “official” Buzz Panel books–and all the other titles clamoring for buzz on the show floor during BEA–we thought it would be interesting to take stock of the performance of last year’s selections. Bear in mind that part of the point of the panel is to shine a light on a broad selection of books of potential merit and audience appeal that might not be top-of-the list sure things. So absolute sales numbers are not the only measure of success. But by most yardsticks, nearly all of the books featured last year met with some kind […]
Bestseller Radar
More eBook Bestsellers
With a new week’s data (above) from Amazon’s Kindle, we’re rounding out last week’s comparison charts showing differentiations among the bestseller lists at leading ebook platforms with a comparable chart of the week’s bestsellers from Kobo: Kobo (May 15)1. Dead In The Family, Charlaine Harris*2. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson+3. The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown+4. Lover Mine, J.R. Ward*5. Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer6. Breaking Dawn, Stephenie Meyer7. Sh*t My Dad Says, Justin Halpern8. Savor The Moment, Nora Roberts* 9. The Girl Who Played With Fire, Stieg Larsson+10. Triple Heat, Jolene Beauchamp * Not carried in the Kindle store+ […]
Sh*t You Find On Different eBook Bestseller Lists
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 […]
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 […]