After winning the highest-ever valuation on BBCTV’s Dragon’s Den, The Little Girl (or Boy) Who Lost Her (or His) Name – designed for individual children – sells 500,000 copiesDavid Cadji-Newby used to get an email alert every time a copy of his personalised picture book was bought from his website. There would be just a few a day, until, shortly before Christmas in 2013, sales suddenly took off.“My email was going ‘ping, ping, ping’, I thought it was broken. I was thinking ‘oh my God, what’s happening?’” said Cadji-Newby today. The book, a beautifully illustrated hardback which creates a personalised story around the letters of a child’s name, has now sold 500,000 copies to date, according to its publishers. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2015-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Michael Wolff's sequel to his blockbuster book "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," which became a runaway bestseller when it was released last January, will hit bookstore shelves next month, publisher Henry Holt & Co. said in a surprise announcement Wednesday. Wolff's latest,... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
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Michelle Obama's runaway bestseller of a debut memoir, 'Becoming,' stays on top of the Apple Books store in the second to last week of 2018. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Tyson has been writing for general audiences for more than 20 years—but his latest book, 'Astrophysics for People in a Hurry,' is his first runaway bestseller. And he thinks he knows why. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Figures show 2015 book sales in Japan pulling ahead 'slightly' by comparison to magazine sales. One runaway bestseller might deserve as much credit as softer sales in the fashion media. The post Did Matayoshi ‘Spark’ Japan’s Growth in Book Sales? appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
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After selling over 4 million copies in the U.S. alone, in hardcover and ebook, Riverhead Books will release the trade paperback edition of Paula Hawkins' runaway bestseller on July 12. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-06-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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After winning the highest-ever valuation on BBCTV’s Dragon’s Den, The Little Girl (or Boy) Who Lost Her (or His) Name – designed for individual children – sells 500,000 copiesDavid Cadji-Newby used to get an email alert every time a copy of his personalised picture book was bought from his... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-04-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The new children's book House of Secrets was written by a first-time novelist but there are already predictions that it will be a runaway bestseller. Continue reading at Stuff
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