Sep 27 2007
Alan Greenspan debuts at the top with The Age of Turbulence. Julia London appeared with her authorized fan fiction story based on the soap opera Guiding Light. There were no other meaningful debuts and only four books dropped out of the list. * * * 74 Seaside Avenue, Debbie Macomber (Mira), $7.99, No. 11 (Peak(…)
Sep 26 2007
I’m starting a new column for Wednesdays on USA Today Bestseller list predictions. There were a few books that were on sale last week that had street dates for Tuesday, September 25, 2007. The most notable one was JR Ward’s Lover Unbound. According to Bookscan, purchases of Ward’s book were made as early as two(…)
Sep 20 2007
James Patterson overtakes former President Clinton at the number one spot with his co written book, You’ve Been Warned. The rest of the list is really mundane. * * * 74 Seaside Avenue, Debbie Macomber (Mira), $7.99, No. 5 (Peak 1). Eclipse, Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown), $18.99, No. 9 (Peak 1) Innocent in Death, J.D.(…)
Sep 18 2007
In a huge shift, NY Times is revising its bestseller lists. It will add a Trade Paperback list in addition to its stable of Non Fiction, Hardcover Fiction and Mass Market Fiction lists. It will also expand the paperback list to 20 titles (from the 15). The total number of bestsellers listed will increase to(…)
Sep 13 2007
I’ve heard alot of Democratic pundits say that when you vote for Hilary, you are getting a twofer. Certainly Bill Clinton’s popularity seems undiminished since his residency in the Oval office. His most recent book, Giving: How Each of Us Can Change the World, debuts at number 1. Despite last week being a big release(…)
Sep 6 2007
Debbie Macomber triumphs over the wizard, the teen love triangle, and Oprah with 74 Seaside Avenue. There are alot of new entries into the list, mostly reprints but several AVON and Harlequin releases. There are no new faces and I was disappointed to not see Jo Goodman here and the low presence of Karen Rose.(…)
Aug 30 2007
The boy wizard is still defeating the needy teenage girl but she’s still hanging on to the number two spot. The new entry to the list was To Scotland, With Love by Karen Hawkins. It was a mid month release and debuted at number 41. Next week should be more interesting as August 28 was(…)
Aug 23 2007
You can’t keep a good wizard down, not even with a love triangle between a needy teenage girl and two supernatural heroes. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows moves back into the number one position. Only two new books on the list of note: Play Dirty by Sandra Brown, debuting on the list at No.(…)
Aug 9 2007
Lisa Jackson muscled her way past the first 6 harry potter books but couldn’t quite topple the heavy weight to gain the number one spot. Being number 2 with Almost Dead to the hottest selling author of our age? Not so bad. New release Tuesday netted some new faces with Monica McCarty’s debut effort, Highlander(…)
Aug 6 2007
Despite Amazon sales representing only a tiny fraction of sales for a book, authors check their sales ranking compulsively. The algorithm for establishing the ranking is a deeply guarded secret. Amazon updates its rankings hourly with recent sales weight more heavily than the entirety of a sales history. A NY public relations firm claims that(…)
Aug 2 2007
Shelf Awareness says that the Harry Potter buzz has reduced from a roar to a hum, but the USA Today list shows that it is still dominating the reader world with all 7 books in the top 12. I don’t know how many people have asked me in the past week whether I’ve read the(…)
Jul 26 2007
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows sold a purported 8 million copies within the first 24 hours but because of deep discounts bookstores made almost nothing on the sales. What it did do, however, was sell alot of other books, mostly Potter related books. In another first, the top 15 is dominated by one author(…)
Jul 19 2007
Nora Roberts pushed the young adult book down to 6 to claim the number 2 spot with High Noon. The writing corporation of James Patterson is number 1 with The Quickie. Other than the Nora Roberts entrance, the rest of the list looks similar to last week, with only small changes in the order. Next(…)
Jul 18 2007
So my list is way late and you’ll expect another one tomorrow, right? Better late than never. The July 8, 2007, list has a surprise with Lisa Harrison’s 8th Clique novel, Sealed with a Diss, at no. 3 above even Janet Evanovich’s 13th Stephanie Plum novel, Lean Mean Thirteen. Julia Quinn’s first non Bridgerton book(…)
Jul 5 2007
Janet Evanovich’s most recent Stephanie Plum story, Lean Mean Thirteen, is still number one. With the release of heavyweights like Feehan and Quinn, however, the USA Today is topped by romance authors with Feehan’s Safe Harbor at 2 and Quinn’s The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever at 4 and Debbie Macomber’s, Country Brides at(…)
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