Is it possible to predict whether a book will sell well? Former publisher Jodie Archer and Matthew L Jockers, of Stanford University’s Literary Lab, built an algorithm to find outYour program can identify, from scanning 20,000 books, ones which made the New York Times bestseller lists with 80%... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-09-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Canadian author Louise Penny has the #3 book in the country with ‘A Great Reckoning,’ her 12th Inspector Gamache mystery. Plus ’The Nix’ lands at #9 in Hardcover Fiction—and lands a TV deal—John Lewis’s civil rights era graphic memoir concludes with ‘March: Book Three,’ and much more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The bestselling iBooks in mystery, romance, sci-fi, biography, fiction, and more for the week ended September 4, 2016. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lysa TerKeurst’s ‘Uninvited’ sold nearly 100,000 copies in August and took #1 on our Religion Nonfiction list. Plus, Wanda Brunstetter topped Fiction with the final installment of her Amish Millionaire series. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-09-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sandra Brown's latest crime thriller, 'Sting,' is #1 on the iBooks bestseller list, with M.L. Stedman's 'The Light Between Oceans' at #2. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The bestselling iBooks in mystery, romance, sci-fi, biography, fiction, and more for the week ended August 28, 2016. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-09-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Two new books about the Republican nominee debut on our Hardcover Nonfiction list. Plus movie tie-ins editions for ‘The Girl on the Train’ and ‘The Light Between Oceans’ get off to strong starts, and much more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-09-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Paula Hawkins is back on top of the iBooks bestseller list with 'The Girl on the Train,' pushing J.K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts 1 and 2' down into the #2 slot. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-08-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amy Schumer’s ‘The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo” is the #3 book in the country. Plus Khizer Khan’s DNC speech boosts sales of a pocket edition of the U.S. Constitution, though not the version some people might expect; a pair of Oscar winners bring Gilded Age New York City to life; and much more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-08-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
J.K. Rowling's 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts 1 and 2' continues its domination of the iBooks chart as it nets another #1 slot, followed by Amy Schumer and Paula Hawkins. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
This 1,000-plus-page novel, based on an infamous murder that rocked Rome in the 1970s, has been on the bestseller list in Italy for 22 weeks now. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-08-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Beth Moore, the author of bestsellers ‘So Long, Insecurity’ and ‘Audacious,’ is breaking into Christian fiction with ‘The Undoing of Saint Silvanus.’ Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-08-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Three books debut among the country’s 10 top sellers: new titles from faith-based writers Lysa TerKeurst and Shauna Niequist, and the latest adult coloring book from trendsetter Johanna Basford. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
The bestselling iBooks in mystery, romance, sci-fi, biography, fiction, and more for the week ended August 14, 2016. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
J.K. Rowling and Paula Hawkins kept their #1 and #2 slots, respectively, on the iBooks bestsellers list as 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts 1 and 2' and 'The Girl on the Train' continue to captivate audiences. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-08-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
In its debut week, print units sales for the #1 book in the country, ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts 1 and 2,’ are more than double those for the next 99 books combined. Plus Colson Whitehead’s ’The Underground Railroad' gets the Oprah nod and the #3 slot in Hardcover Fiction, the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-08-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Shocking no one, 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts 1 and 2' stays #1 more than a week after its much-ballyhooed release. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-08-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
For the first time, a pair of self-published authors, Aaron and Jennifer Smith, took two spots on PW’s Religion Nonfiction Bestsellers list. Plus, Wanda Brunstetter topped the fiction list with the latest installment of her Amish Milionaire series. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-08-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
A novel about an heir to an ice cream dynasty, by an Indian-born and Holland-based author, is having a moment in Germany. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
The bestselling iBooks in mystery, romance, sci-fi, biography, fiction, and more for the week ended July 31, 2016. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2016-08-05 00:00:00 UTC ]