Galbraith keeps on rolling: Lethal White strikes number one for a second week

Robert Galbraith has held the Official Top 50 number one spot for a second week running, with Lethal White (Sphere) selling 15,244 copies through Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2018-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]

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Butcher's Skin Game takes top spot on Original Fiction chart

Just under 3m book sales registered through Nielsen BookScan for the week ending the 31st of May... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Galbraith, le Carré and McDermid on CrimeFest shortlist

John le Carré, Robert Galbraith and Val McDermid are among the authors shortlisted for... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Hoping for a Spring Thaw

Unit sales of print books sold through Nielsen BookScan’s mass merchandisers/other channel fell 9% in the first 10 weeks of 2014, compared to the same period in 2013. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Rowling gains record number of chart top spots

J K Rowling's Robert Galbraith novel The Cuckoo's Calling (Sphere) has narrowly bumped... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Solid First Week for 'Duty'

The memoir of former defense secretary Robert M. Gates has sold more than 80,000 copies during its first week on sale in the outlets that report to Nielsen BookScan. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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The Weekly Scorecard Tracking Unit Print Sales (in thousands)

Unit sales of print books fell 4% in the first week of 2014 compared to the week ended Jan. 6, 2013, at outlets that report to Nielsen BookScan. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Sales of Print Units Slipped in 2013

Sales of print books through outlets that report to Nielsen BookScan’s retail & club channel fell 2.5%, to 501.6 million units, in 2013, compared to 2012. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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S&S Keeping 'Duck Dynasty' Title on Shelves

Despite the controversy stirred up Wednesday afternoon by critical remarks of "homosexual behavior" by Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson in a GQ interview, Simon & Schuster has no plans to pull Phil Robertson's bestselling book, Happy, Happy, Happy. The title has sold nearly 600,000... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A Reason for Thanks

Print sales held up well during the week of Thanksgiving this year, rising 7.5% in Nielsen BookScan’s retail & club channel compared to the week of Thanksgiving in 2012. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Wimpy Kid kicks Alex Ferguson into touch

Manchester United legend's bestselling memoir pushed from the top of books chart by Jeff Kinney's weedy heroHis protagonist is a lazy schoolboy weakling, Greg Heffley, but now children's author Jeff Kinney has shoved the big man of football off the top spot in the UK official book chart.Hard... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2013-11-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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National Book Awards hopes to make a splash on 'Morning Joe'

The National Book Awards in recent years has been working to raise its profile and increase books' cultural impact. Now it's taking another step toward extending its reach. The National Book Foundation, which administers the prizes, will announce Monday that the 2013 awards ceremony and benefit... Continue reading at Crains New York

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Who is Robert Galbraith? The Mystery is Solved!

After it was revealed that JK Rowling wrote the crime novel, The Cuckoo's Calling, under pseudonym Robert Galbraith, book sales on Amazon have spiked by 507,000 percent. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

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Private “I”

Robert Galbraith, who is really J.K. Rowling, caps his debut mystery novel, which is really her ninth book, by channeling Alfred, Lord Tennyson. “I am become a name,” thinks the private eye Cormoran Strike to himself when the case is solved, quoting Tennyson’s “Ulysses.” Strike’s right—he is... Continue reading at Slate

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Rowling unmasked as Robert Galbraith

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Going Their Own Way

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Rate of Print Decline Flattened in 2012

Unit sales of print books fell just over 9% in 2012 at outlets tracked by Nielsen BookScan, roughly the same percentage decline posted between 2010 and 2011. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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The Bestselling Books of 2012

Half of the top 20 bestselling books of 2012 in print were either Fifty Shades titles or Hunger Games titles, and only one book not written by E.L. James or Suzanne Collins—Jeff Kinney’s latest Wimpy Kid title—cracked the one-million-copies-sold mark for the year, according to Nielsen BookScan,... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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USA’s Top-Selling Print Books of 2012 from Nielsen

It comes as no surprise that Nielsen BookScan's top-selling print book lists for 2012 are dominated by Fifty Shades and the Hunger Games. See what else is on the lists. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

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Super Thursday celebs boost HB sector, but PB sales slump

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‘Casual Vacancy’ and the State of Big (Print) Debuts

After months of hype, the first adult novel from J.K. Rowling debuted with the third biggest print opening of 2012. At outlets tracked by Nielsen BookScan, The Casual Vacancy sold 156,679 copies in its first week—enough to place it behind only No Easy Day by Mark Owen (254,046 copies) and Fifty... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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