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Washington Post Revises a Year’s Worth of Best-Seller Lists, Assures us the Problem Will Not Recur

28 July, 201929 July, 2019Best-Seller List8 Comments

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...

NYTimes Launches Audiobook Best-Seller List

6 March, 20186 March, 2018Best-Seller List6 Comments

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,...

Washington Post’s New Best-Seller List is Based on Data from Amazon Charts, Nielsen

8 February, 20188 February, 2018Amazon, Best-Seller List4 Comments

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...

Marketing Your Book as a “Spiegel Best-Seller” in Germany Could Soon Cost You Money

18 December, 201718 December, 2017Best-Seller ListLeave a comment

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...

This One Weird Trick Will Vault Your Book to the Top of an Amazon Best-Seller List

26 February, 201612 June, 2017Amazon, Best-Seller List6 Comments

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...

Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google, Apple Announce Best-Selling Books of 2015

10 December, 201510 December, 2015Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Best-Seller List, Google Books, iBooks2 Comments

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...

Presidential Hopeful Ted Cruz’s Memoir Lands on the NYT Best-Seller List – Finally

16 July, 201523 July, 2015Best-Seller ListLeave a comment

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,...

Amazon, HarperCollins Refute Claims of Bulk Purchase Shenanigans of Ted Cruz’s Bio

13 July, 201513 July, 2015Best-Seller List, Publishing6 Comments

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...

BookFinder Reports that More People Were Searching for Fly Fishing in 2014 Than for “Sex”

4 February, 20159 October, 2016Best-Seller List5 Comments

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...

Abe Books Reveals the Most Expensive Used Books It Sold in 2014

17 December, 201416 November, 2019Best-Seller ListOne Comment

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...

Amazon Announces Best-Selling Books of 2014

13 December, 201411 May, 2017Amazon, Best-Seller List8 Comments

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...

Fifty Shades of Grey, The Fault in Our Stars Top Google Play Books’ Most Downloaded List for 2014

11 December, 201411 December, 2014Best-Seller ListLeave a comment

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,...

Apple Releases iBookstore Best-Seller List for 2014

10 December, 201410 December, 2014Apple, Best-Seller List, eBookstoreOne Comment

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...

Amazon’s UK Best Seller List Affected By Free eBook Offer – What, Again?

24 August, 201411 May, 2017Amazon, Best-Seller List, KindleOne Comment

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...

My Buying Community Wants to Help Authors Beat the Kindle Store Best Seller List

31 March, 201411 May, 2017Amazon, Best-Seller List3 Comments

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...