News and Events WLT Bestselling Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid will visit the University of Oklahoma April 6 through 8 for the 2020 Puterbaugh Lit Fest hosted by World Literature Today magazine. Events start on April 6 with a conversation about... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2020-03-02 22:05:09 UTC ]
Prolific author of fast-paced thrillers, including Raise the Titanic!, featuring the adventure hero Dirk PittThe prolific and popular novelist Clive Cussler, who has died aged 88, combined adventure and technology into fast-paced thrillers. Ubiquitous and easily recognisable on airport... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-02-27 16:45:35 UTC ]
The 'New York Times Book Review' is making a slew of changes to its bestseller lists, both in print and online, including a slimming of some of its print lists from 15 to 10 titles, and the return of two much-loved lists. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-09-26 04:00:00 UTC ]
New fiction on China's bestseller lists captures the contemporary sensibilities of young adults in the country's largest cities. The post China Bestsellers for July: An Urban Online Gaming Culture Drives Sales appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-08-30 05:30:36 UTC ]
Political books touches a certain chord in South African society that makes them bestsellers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2019-04-24 13:50:30 UTC ]
Scholastic will this autumn publish a new picture book by the creators of The Wonky Donkey, which hit the bestseller lists after a video of a Scottish grandmother reading the book went viral. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Movie-driven science fiction tops China's bestseller lists in February, and we have news on the fast rise of 'paid-for content' in China. The post China Bestsellers for February: ‘Paid-For Content’ in the Chinese Market appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-03-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
New thrillers from well-known authors topped the bestseller lists across Europe in late October. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
John McCain's book “The Restless Wave” appeared on bestseller lists following the Arizona senator's death on Saturday. The book, which was released in May by Simon & Schuster, was ranked No. 2 on Amazon's list of bestselling books, and No. 3 on the Barnes & Noble website as of Monday... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-08-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
As book prices rise and children's books show new energy, the number of new titles on China's bestseller lists has decreased, with older hits lingering on sales charts. The post China’s Book Market in the First Half of 2018: Slower Growth, Rising Prices appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2018-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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 ]