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 […]
Bestseller Radar
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 […]
The Week’s Biggest New Bestseller Is Published Out of Canada
Michael Wolff’s FIRE AND FURY continued to sell through in significant quantities, moving as many hardcovers in the sales week ending January 28 as the next nine books combined on Bookscan’s bestseller list. But the big surprise of the week was to see YouTube psychologist and professor at the University of Toronto Jordan B. Peterson’s new book 12 RULES FOR LIFE sitting at No. 2, selling approximately 58,000 hardcovers in its opening week — and published by Random House Canada rather than a US imprint. Agent Sally Harding at CookeMcDermid Agency sold the book (originally titled DO NOT BOTHER CHILDREN WHEN THEY ARE SKATEBOARDING: […]
Fire and Fury Sales News
Bookscan shows tracked US sales of the hardcover edition of FIRE AND FURY of a little under 29,000 copies in the first two days on sale (last Friday and Saturday) — still enough to make the book No. 1 in a light sales week, and just the beginning with a reported 1 million-plus copies on the way. Little Brown UK announced that they “currently have 330,000 copies out with customers in home and export and have also sold tens of thousands of e-books and audiobooks over the past few days.” Most UK stores just began receiving inventory this week, even […]
Amazon’s Year-End Charts
Following the introduction of Amazon Charts in May, Amazon has created a year-end package of 2017: This Year in Books, powered by Charts. The “most read fiction” list, topped by The Handmaid’s Tale, includes four Harry Potter titles (available for free through Prime Reading and Kindle Unlimited) and one house title, from May, Mark Sullivan’s Beneath A Scarlet Sky from Lake Union Publishing. Dan Brown’s Origin, at No. 9, is the only other 2017 release in their top 10. Mark Manson’s The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck is their most read nonfiction book. (Though his second book was […]