'Fifty Shades of Grey' has passed the 'Harry Potter' books and 'The Da Vinci Code' to become the country's bestselling book. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-08-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sales of E L James' Fifty Shades series slumped for a third consecutive week last... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Transworld has acquired a debut novel which has already sold over 250,000 copies in the US,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fifty Shades of Grey has surpassed Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Booksellers, get out your handcuffs: Roughly one in five physical books sold in the U.S. over most of the spring were the ¿Fifty Shades¿ sex trilogy. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-07-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Stephen Colbert's latest release – a picture book aimed at young adults and up – follows a pole as it searches for the perfect job. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon.com has announced a 19% hike in worldwide media sales, which include books, DVDs... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hugh Howey has not quite broken out in the way recent self-publishing superstars like Amanda Hocking and John Locke have, but his sales record has made New York publishing houses take notice. Best known among his avid fan base for Wool, his five-part science fiction series, Howey estimates that... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The newest 'Star Wars' novel, 'Fate of the Jedi: Apocalypse,' holds the No. 8 slot on the New York Times bestseller list. Success has become the norm for the books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pan Macmillan has snapped up UK and Commonwealth rights to Amazon’s self-publishing... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-02-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
The new #1 fiction title in January was from bestselling author Jussi Adler-Olsen, who landed in the top spot with The Alphabet House. Adler-Olsen’s most recent U.S. title, The Keeper of Lost Causes, was released last August by Dutton and received a PW starred review. Dutton will publish... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Michael Morpurgo’s War Horse (Egmont) was once again the bestselling book in the UK last... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Germany’s top fiction title at the end of December, The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out His Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson climbed up from #5, supplanting previous chart-topper Inheritance (Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance was also #2 in Spain). Jonasson’s novel has sold more... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-01-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Michael Morpurgo's War Horse (Egmont) was comfortably the bestselling book in the UK last... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
A new translation of the Bible has taken the top spot in Norway's bestseller list, selling 75... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
A few days after Amazon announced that the Steve Jobs biography was its top-selling book of 2011 (combined print and ebook sales), the book debuted on bestseller charts around the world, including the three countries highlighted this month. Steve Jobs was #3 in France and the Netherlands, and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-12-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
The top three fiction titles in Germany were all debuts in October, led by In Times of Fading Light, which recently won the 2011 German Book Prize and is set for publication in the U.S. by Graywolf Press in fall 2013. Umberto Ecos newest book, The Prague Cemetery, which debuted at #3, is newly... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Philip Stone Publication Date: Wed, 02/11/2011 - 08:27 Walter Isaacsons biography of the late Steve Jobs has become one of the fastest-selling hardback non-fiction books since records began. Brought forward from its original publication date of 24th November following the Apple... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
With Knopf set to release Haruki Murakamis 1Q84 this week in the U.S., the latest novel from the award-winning Japanese author was an instant bestseller in Japan and debuted at #3 in France in September. Topping the French fiction chart last month was The Passenger, the most recent thriller... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Wed, 07/09/2011 - 08:15 Pan Macmillan has acquired a title which has sold, according to the publisher, more than a quarter of a million copies in eight weeks in France and went to number one in the bestseller charts. Editorial director Liz Gough... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]