Kim Kardashian's Selfish book snapped up by thousands

Collected selfies from reality star hailed both as ‘Catcher in the Rye of the Instagram generation’ and ‘an anthology of what is wrong with American culture’Whether it is “a nail in the coffin for artistic photography” or “strangely liberating”, Kim Kardashian’s collection of hundreds of selfies, Selfish, has climbed in to the bestseller charts on both sides of the Atlantic after just five days on sale.The title, which runs to more than 350 pages of images of the American celebrity, famous for her reality television show Keeping Up with the Kardashians, was released on 5 May by leading art publisher Rizzoli. It sold 1,940 copies in the UK in the week to 9 May, according to book sales monitor Nielsen BookScan, putting it in seventh place in the hardback non-fiction charts and outselling new novels by major writers including James Patterson, Mark Billingham, David Baldacci and Jo Nesbo. Related: Kim Kardashian’s Selfish: a nail in the coffin for artistic photography? Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2015-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]

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Pan Mac acquires French bestseller

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 at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2011-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Madeleine tops charts again as Bond misses number one

Written By: Philip Stone Publication Date: Wed, 01/06/2011 - 14:53 James Bond has failed in his latest mission: to top the bestseller charts. Despite a bargain £5 deal at Tesco (75% off the £19.99 r.r.p.), sales of Jeffery Deaver's 007 novel, Carte Blanche (Hodder & Stoughton), were... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Richard and Judy launches kids books club

Written By: Lisa Campbell A children's book written by Jo Nesbo is among the choices in Richard and Judy’s Children’s Book Club, which launched in W H Smith today [27th January]. The husband-and wife television presenting team are working alongside the charity Booktrust, to encourage more... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2011-01-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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