At Canongate, Andrea Joyce has stepped down as rights director after 13 years with the company. Jessica Neale succeeds her as rights and contracts director. Forthcoming Penguin Random House will publish a digital cookbook on May 5 to benefit restaurants and their workers, priced at $5.99, FAMILY MEAL: Recipes from Our Community. It features over 40 recipes by chefs and home cooks who publish with PRH imprint, covering what they are cooking and drinking at home right now, and all proceeds will benefit the RWCF COVID 19 Crisis Relief Fund. It includes a foreword from Restaurant Workers’ Community Fund co-founder […]
Bestseller Radar
Continuing Strong Sales For American Dirt, A Very Stable Genius
AMERICAN DIRT by Jeanine Cummins sold another 36,000 hardcovers in its second week on sale, as tracked by NPD Bookscan. That left it as the clear No. 1 title in adult fiction — though A VERY STABLE GENIUS by Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker remained the No. 1 title overall, growing in its second week with sales of 59,000 hardcovers, followed by PROFILES IN CORRUPTION by Peter Schweizer as the No. 2 title, ahead of American Dirt. For the same sales week, Bookstat.com estimated additional sales of 21,400 ebooks for American Dirt, and 16,700 digital audios. In those formats, it […]
Next Week’s Bestellers
We told you last week in our first experimental post that BookStat.com showed online pre-orders for AMERICAN DIRT of 9,190 hardcovers; 10,436 ebooks; and 3,088 audiobooks. From publication day through Saturday June 25, to align with bestseller lists, BookStat shows online sales of another 8,913 copies, ebook sales of 10,971 units, and digital audio sales of 13,623. Since Bookstat is monitoring online print sales for Amazon only, that suggests the full print sale will register at somewhere between two and three times what they monitor — so, with pre-orders included since that’s how bestseller lists work in opening week, a […]
Next Week’s Bestsellers
We are beginning some experimental work with BookStat, the service that tracks and estimates online book sales across all formats, to provide some market insights not previously available. One feature of the system we particularly like (and helped to inspire) is that it tracks pre-orders on a daily basis, right alongside sales of books already on the market, providing a broader view of titles attracting interest from readers. That feature becomes particularly interesting for tracking new release titles (and over time helping to distinguish between actual opening week sales of books, versus their accrued pre-orders). It also means we can […]
Briefs
Film/TV Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, through their company Escapist Fare, have signed a multi-year overall deal with CBS TV Studios. That deal starts with a limited series adaptation of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay for Showtime, but includes a number of other projects in development. Akiva Goldsman and Alex Kurtzman will executive produce Kavalier & Clay, and Paramount Television will produce (since Paramount Pictures owns the film/TV rights). Initiatives This year James Patterson will give holiday gifts totaling over $200,000 to Barnes & Noble booksellers around the country as well, in addition to his annual holiday bonuses […]
NYT Brings Back Monthly Mass-Market and Graphic Novel Bestseller Lists
After eliminating their weekly mass-market bestseller list in early 2017, along with three monthly online-only lists for hardcover and paperback graphic novels and manga, the NYT is restoring some charts for those categories in more modest form. Starting October 2 (online) and October 20 (in print), the paper will feature one monthly bestseller list for mass market paperbacks, and one monthly combined list for graphic books (comprising fiction, nonfiction, children’s, adults, and manga). “These lists are returning due to continued reader interest and market strength,” the NYT said in a release. They are also bringing back monthly lists for middle […]