These uncertain times have seen a renewed interest in serious nonfiction, as people try to make sense of an unstable world• The best ‘brainy’ books of the last 10 yearsThis is a story about a book that just kept selling, catching publishers, booksellers and even its author off guard. In seeking... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-07-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ireland’s Nielsen-measured market has enjoyed strong, UK-beating growth this year to date, with a grass-roots author campaign propelling the late Emma Hannigan to the top of the bestseller lists. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bill Clinton and James Patterson have the #1 book in the country with 'The President Is Missing' and more in our analysis of this week's bestseller lists. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
In its latest market report, Slovakia's publishers' association says the overall book market was worth up to €110 million (US$135.3 million) in 2016. Fiction rose to 27 percent of those sales. The post Domestic Fiction Leads Slovakia’s Book Market Growth and Bestseller Lists appeared first on... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Popular pastors' inspirational advice, devotionals, and novels packed with romance, suspense -- or both -- lead January's bestseller lists. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
By all accounts, the Hulu series “The Handmaid’s Tale” was a huge success in 2017. Counterintuitively, the Margaret Atwood novel it was based on has been a constant on bestseller lists. Hadn’t people gotten the story from watching the show? Apparently not. In fact, this was the case for a number... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-01-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Children’s novel about a boy trying to break his father out of prison sells more than 60,000 copies in a week to secure top slot in festive book chartsDavid Walliams’s tale of a boy trying to break his father out of prison, Bad Dad, has beaten Jamie Oliver’s latest recipe collection to the top... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-12-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
China bestsellers: As publisher-owned bookstores are on the rise, so are "shared bookstores" where customers are allowed to borrow books. The post In China: Bookselling Trends and OpenBook’s Bestseller Lists for October appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2017-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
There are more bestseller lists than ever—and the consequences for publishing remain unclear. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-11-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
As we roll out this month's bestseller lists from China, the country's second-largest e-retailer, JD.com, is holding a competition to engineer book delivery by drones. The post OpenBook’s China Bestseller Lists for August 2017: Delivery Races appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2017-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Marji Ross, president of the conservative press Regnery Publishing, sent a letter to her authors saying the paper "prioritizes liberal-themed books over conservative books." For this reason, the bonus structure in her house's contracts will now rely on a different list. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
From Scroll.in: Consumers in India are presented, as in other countries with sometimes conflicting bestselling book lists. The post On Bestseller Lists in India: ‘Which One Should You Trust?’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2017-08-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
His Dark Materials novelist says today’s steep price cuts devalue authors’ work and cheapen the experience of readingWith more than two months to go before Philip Pullman’s long-awaited new novel from the world of His Dark Materials is published, pre-orders have sent La Belle Sauvage flying up... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-08-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Four Amazon Publishing titles, which drew poor BookScan print sales numbers, are among the top 20 fiction bestsellers on the latest iteration of the e-tailer's new weekly bestseller list, bolstered by sales in non-print formats. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-05-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bestseller lists like the one at the New York Times measure a book's success by how many copies its sold. What it doesn't do is tell you how many of those books are being read, nor how fast. Amazon Charts aims to fix this problem with a new, weekly b... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2017-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
After the Scandi noir boom, dark tales from British authors are making waves abroad. Publishers, agents and authors take up the caseWhen ex-paramedic Daniel Cole signed with agent Sue Armstrong, he was “delighted”. When Armstrong bagged him a six-figure, three-book deal from a British publisher... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Jussi Adler-Olsen was on a roll abroad last month, placing books in the top ten of bestseller lists in France, the Netherlands, and Germany. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-04-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers expressed dismay, confusion and surprise at the 'New York Times' decision to eliminate some bestseller lists. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
As part of its effort to revamp its coverage of publishing, the 'New York Times' has eliminated a number of bestsellers lists, among them graphic novels/manga and mass market paperback lists. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2017-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
The 2014 Pulitzer Prize winning novel about a French woman and a German man living during World War II with poetic and moral themes around music and science continues its streak on the bestseller list. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2016-11-18 00:00:00 UTC ]