The NYT’s mistaken account that James Comey’s early sales for A HIGHER LOYALTY had “dwarfed” those of Michael Wolff’s FIRE AND FURY from January is quickly put to rest by Bookscan’s updated tabulation for the sales week ending April 29. After two weeks on sale, Comey has recorded sales of approximately 446,000 hardcover copies through the service, while Wolff’s book was counted at more than 544,000 hardcovers sold after two weeks and 3 days on sale. But that’s not even the most notable sales news this week. Joanna Gaines took the No. 1 spot overall with recorded opening week sales […]
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At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Becky Saikia-Wilson has been promoted to svp, trade associate publisher. Lyndsay Calusine has been promoted to lead designer on the creative services, design and promotion team. Penny Scott-Bayfield will join Bloomsbury as group finance director on July 16, taking over from Wendy Pallot, who will step down on that day. Scott-Bayfield is currently finance director at Conde Nast Britain. Mary Cate Stevenson and Noah Nofz, who operate a Houston, TX-based digital media marketing company Two Cats Communications, started working for the ABA in March as part-time social media coordinators. Book Expo Book Expo announced two new panels: […]
Bestseller Business: Persecution, and Preorders
Dennis Prager is the latest author to ask for attention by claiming ideological persecution when he did not appear on the New York Times best seller list — even though his publisher Regnery famously proclaimed last year it would no longer refer to the Times lists in its marketing and promotion. (On the one hand, Prager writes, “I don’t pay attention to it,” though he follows that by contradicting himself: “But I paid attention last week to see if my recently published book…was on the list.”) Amusing within our little village is that Prager enumerates how The Rational Bible: Exodus was […]
Gay Bundo Beats Comey, So Far
Donald Trump’s renewed attack on justice lifted pre-orders for James Comey’s April 17 release A HIGHER LOYALTY, still at No. 3 on the Kindle bestseller list and No. 2 on Amazon’s print bestseller list this morning. But the former FBI director is outranked on both lists by another prominent Republican, featured in the parody release from Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, A DAY IN THE LIFE OF MARLON BUNDO. It’s the story of Vice President Pence’s family rabbit, “a Very Special boy bunny, who falls in love with another boy bunny.” The picture book from Chronicle is out of stock […]
NYT to Launch Monthly Audiobook Bestseller Lists Later This Week
The New York Times will publish audiobook bestseller lists for the first time, on a monthly basis only, debuting online on Thursday, March 8 (and appearing in the March 18 issue of the Sunday Book Review). All of their bestseller lists will go live on the NYT website on Thursday mornings, instead of on Friday. Additionally, the paper expanding the paperback bestseller lists from 10 positions to 15, “in response to reader interest.” The monthly audiobooks lists will note the top 15 fiction and top 15 nonfiction audio titles from the previous month. TBR editor Pamela Paul says in the […]
Washington Post Revamps Bestsellers, Becomes Amazoned
The Washington Post revised their bestseller lists, previously based solely on Bookscan print sales data, to incorporate data from their cousins at Amazon. Adding the etailer’s ebook sales gives the lists an extra dimension that brings them closer to lists from the New York Times, USA Today and the Wall Street Journal. Unfortunately, however, the Post has also infected itself with Amazon’s ebook borrowing statistics, tilting their results towards the limited universe of titles included in Kindle Unlimited and Prime Reading. Additionally, the Post has “syndicated” the Amazon Charts Most Read list, and is introducing a new, local Most Read […]