Gena Showalter is on the New York Times list for the third week. With the release of the second in the Nora Roberts’ paranormal/horror trilogy, The Hollow, her first book, Blood Brothers, reappeared on both the USA Today and NY Times list. Stephenie Meyer got the top spot for The Host, her first adult offering.
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Will Kresley Cole hit #1 with her June release? She’s at number 3 with her May release. Brenda Jackson’s Kimani release hit the extended list which is unusual because, in part, it is a category romance.
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Book Title
Author
Publisher
Price
Rank
Peak
NYT

The Devil Who Tamed Her
Johanna Lindsey
Pocket
$7.99
7
7
14

Twenty Wishes
Debbie Macomber
Mira
$24.95
10
10
3*

A Wanted Man: A Stone Creek [...]

We’ve put together a new list that includes references to the NYT placement.
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Book Title
Author
Publisher
Price
Rank
Peak
NYT

The Other Boleyn Girl
Phillipa Gregory
Touchstone
$16.00
3
3
10

Remember Me?
Sophie Kinsella
Dial Press
$25.00
6
4
2*

Naughty Neighbor
Janet Evanovich
Harper
$7.99
26
20
4

Killer Secrets
Lora Leigh
St. Martin’s Press
$6.99
30
30
11

Thigh High
Christina Dodd
Signet
$7.99
31
31
17

Predatory Game
Christine Feehan
Jove
$7.99
39
12
8

The Alibi Man
Tami Hoag
Ballantine
$7.99
41
19
7

Strangers in Death
J.D. [...]

New York Times posted its Notable 100 books for 2007. The print version is released on Sunday. I have nothing to say since I’ve not read a one of them, not even JK Rowling’s 7th Harry Potter book.

David Pogue, the technology reviewer for the New York Times, thinks that the Kindle might catch on once the design is sleeker and the price is lower. The negatives are the

Design
Huge previous/next buttons are so big that they are easy to hit by mistake

The positives:

The web browser
The easy downloading of books
Automatic back up [...]

The New York Times has a really interesting article about German bookselling. In Germany, there are hundreds of small bookstores that populate the business landscape. The reason for the thriving independent bookstore business is because Germany requires all bookstores to sell books at the same price, without discount.
This anti-freemarket idea is netting positive results: [...]

As I was waiting for a meeting yesterday, I saw CNN reporting on the issue of libraries and scanning. Some well known research libraries are turning down Microsoft and Google’s offers to scan the contents of the libraries for free. Of course, nothing is really free, and the libraries do not want to bind [...]

The NY Times Select is now available free of charge, including its archives that go back to 1987. In a letter to readers, Senior Vice President & General Manager Vivian Schiller, wrote that since the launch of the TimesSelect online, the internet has changed dramatically. “In light of this shift, we believe offering [...]

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 [...]

In today’s New York Times tech section is an article about the growth of ebooks. The writer, Peter Wayner, offers up a summarization of places to buy ebooks (Fictionwise) and formats (Mobipocket and eReader) and devices (cellphones, PDA, and Sony Reader).
There isn’t anything that you haven’t read here on eBook Sunday but [...]