It has long been acknowledged that getting on a best-seller list has little value to authors; it won’t help you sell more books, and is really only useful for things...Continue reading
Category: Best-Seller List
NYTimes Launches Audiobook Best-Seller List
The New York Times is launching an audiobook best-seller list on Thursday. The lists, which combine digital and physical audio sales, will debut online on Thursday, March 8, and in...Continue reading
Washington Post’s New Best-Seller List is Based on Data from Amazon Charts, Nielsen
It looks like Amazon has found a customer for data from Amazon Charts, the weekly best-seller list launched in May 2017. There’s been no formal announcement from either the Post...Continue reading
Marketing Your Book as a “Spiegel Best-Seller” in Germany Could Soon Cost You Money
Best-seller lists are easy to game, which is why the term has almost no real meaning other than as a marketing gimmick. Now Spiegel wants to cash in. Starting after...Continue reading
This One Weird Trick Will Vault Your Book to the Top of an Amazon Best-Seller List
It’s common knowledge that there are companies that will help you buy your way on to the NYTimes best-seller list, and that there are smaller illicit coops with similar goals. Heck, a book...Continue reading
Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google, Apple Announce Best-Selling Books of 2015
With the year coming to a close, the major book and ebook retailers have started posting their “best of” lists. Barnes & Noble, for example, took the opportunity to market...Continue reading
Presidential Hopeful Ted Cruz’s Memoir Lands on the NYT Best-Seller List – Finally
Senator Ted Cruz’s recently-released biography will be landing on The New York Times’ best-seller list this week, after its initial omission saw a week of accusations, recriminations, disputations, and refutations. The list...Continue reading
Amazon, HarperCollins Refute Claims of Bulk Purchase Shenanigans of Ted Cruz’s Bio
When the New York Times left Texas Senator Ted Cruz’s memoir off the NYT Best-Seller List last week, they justified the move with the claim that there were signs that someone...Continue reading
BookFinder Reports that More People Were Searching for Fly Fishing in 2014 Than for “Sex”
BookFinder offers one of the best search engines for finding rare and out of print books, and every year this Amazon sub releases a new list of the most searched...Continue reading
Abe Books Reveals the Most Expensive Used Books It Sold in 2014
Used book dealer and Amazon sub Abe Books just posted its list for the 50 most expensive books it sold in 2014, some of which cost enough to buy you a...Continue reading
Amazon Announces Best-Selling Books of 2014
With the year drawing to a close, everyone from Google to Apple has been posting of their best selling titles for 2014. Yesterday Amazon published their list. Since this is...Continue reading
Fifty Shades of Grey, The Fault in Our Stars Top Google Play Books’ Most Downloaded List for 2014
As we reach the arbitrary endpoint for another circle around the sun, Google has crunched the numbers and posted a list of the most downloaded ebooks, apps, music, and movies in...Continue reading
Apple Releases iBookstore Best-Seller List for 2014
As the year draws to a close, all of the major ebook retailers are getting ready to share their lists of the most downloaded titles for their respective stores. Google’s...Continue reading
Amazon’s UK Best Seller List Affected By Free eBook Offer – What, Again?
So Porter Andersen reported on Friday that a free Kindle ebook promotion sponsored by a telecom was playing merry hob on the UK Kindle Store’s best seller list: Amazon officials confirm...Continue reading
My Buying Community Wants to Help Authors Beat the Kindle Store Best Seller List
It’s long been known that publishers (and even some authors) have bought their way onto prestigious best seller lists, but until now it hasn’t been very easy to pull off...Continue reading