Best-Seller List

NYTimes Launches Audiobook Best-Seller List

6 March, 2018 // 6 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, March 8, and in print in the [Read More ...]

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

8 February, 2018 // 3 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 from either the Post or Amazon, but the [Read More ...]

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

18 December, 2017 // 0 Comments

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 the first of the year, this weekly [Read More ...]

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

26 February, 2016 // 6 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 goals. Heck, a book doesn't [Read More ...]

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

10 December, 2015 // 2 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 the opportunity to market certain books on lists [Read More ...]

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

16 July, 2015 // 0 Comments

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, [Read More ...]

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

13 July, 2015 // 6 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 were signs that someone was trying to game the [Read More ...]

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

4 February, 2015 // 5 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 of the most searched for titles. I've always found [Read More ...]

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

17 December, 2014 // 1 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 to buy you a small house in the midwest. (Coincidentally, a [Read More ...]

Amazon Announces Best-Selling Books of 2014

13 December, 2014 // 8 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 list. Since this is a single combined list for [Read More ...]

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

11 December, 2014 // 0 Comments

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 Google Play. No [Read More ...]

Apple Releases iBookstore Best-Seller List for 2014

10 December, 2014 // 1 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 their respective stores. Google's list is coming tomorrow [Read More ...]

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

24 August, 2014 // 1 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 list: Amazon officials confirm to The [Read More ...]

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

31 March, 2014 // 3 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 easy to pull off the same trick in digital [Read More ...]

Apple’s 2013 Best-Seller List Suggests That Apple is a Friend of Big Publishers

18 December, 2013 // 13 Comments

As the year draws to a close, Apple releases their "Best of 2013" lists for iTunes and iBooks. The iBooks lists include both editor's choice and best-sellers, and they reveals some startling [Read More ...]

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