Not exact matches
First they try to discredit the Gospels and Christian doctrine with a never ending parade of disingenuous books
on the
bestseller lists, and now they try to pull stunts
like this.
God's put it
on the New York Time's
Bestseller's
list for something
like 65 weeks and it's sold more than a million copies and been translated into more than 22 languages.
I would see his face
on the TV or grinning from yet - another -
bestseller list and want to shriek words
like «heresy!»
The self - published authors mentioned below are a combination of things:
bestsellers on the NYT's
lists, part of the «Amazon's million» book club, and some,
like Ksenia Anske, are not even making money off their book sales yet, but already have thousands of supporters.
They've gotten 6 - figure advances, been
on the NY Times
bestseller list, won countless awards, been licensed in 40 + countries, and been picked up for TV, stage, and feature film with companies
like Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks (resulting in millions of books sold).
They've gotten 6 - figure advances, been
on the NY Times
bestseller list, won countless awards, been licensed in more than 40 countries, and been picked up for TV, stage, and feature film with companies
like Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks (resulting in millions of books sold).
This is a summary post because I recognize that everyone gets
on my
list at different types, and it's always good to go over the basics and refocus
on the important elements that will help you write a book people want to read and market it
like a
Bestseller!
Mark's authors have gotten 6 - figure advances, been
on the NY Times
bestseller list, and had their work picked up for TV, stage, and feature film with companies
like Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks resulting in millions of books being sold.
One editor said to me in 2000 about me being # 1
on the electronic
bestseller list was
like being the best hockey player in Equador.
His personal formula for writing and publishing through platforms
like CreateSpace for his print editions and online platforms for ebooks has resulted in twenty - five books
on the
bestseller list, featured articles in the Wall Street Journal and other major newspapers, and a book co-written with Clive Cussler, to be published later this year.
Companies
like Libboo have recently launched a daily feature based
on traffic generated called The Midlist, designed specifically to highlight worthy books that are getting some traction, while not necessarily being top of the
list bestsellers.
The self - publishing aspect, for me, only factors in as a sales tool in one extreme or the other — that is, if it hasn't sold many copies and is «
like new» or, if it's sold so many copies it's worth the investment (as happened with the self - published book The Shack, which sold a million copies and reached # 1
on the NY Times
bestseller list, before selling another five million copies since Hachette picked it up for mainstream publication.)
Like many authors looking to be on the NY Times bestseller list, just use a company like ResultSource out of San Di
Like many authors looking to be
on the NY Times
bestseller list, just use a company
like ResultSource out of San Di
like ResultSource out of San Diego.
One has to bank
on the PB / MG / CB winning awards or hitting
bestsellers lists like our book WONDER by R.J. Palacio has done for Knopf.
«
Bestseller» doesn't mean much, until you can back it up with real data,
like «4 weeks
on the NY Times best - selling
list.»
Her first novel,
Like Water for Chocolate, has sold more than four and a half million copies around the world and remained
on the New York Times
bestseller list for more than a year.
Her first novel,
Like Water for Chocolate, has sold more than four and a half million copies around the world and remained
on the New York Times
bestseller list for more than a... (more)
Like, go and find 50 books
on the
bestseller lists in the last year that sound cool to you.
«Self - published titles now routinely appear
on The New York Times and USA Today
bestseller lists, as well as being shortlisted for prestigious book prizes
like the PEN / Robert W. Bingham Prize and The Bookseller Industry Book of the Year Award.
So a strong release,
like one you're certainly capable of based
on your track record, could make our monthly
bestseller lists.
I know you're just trolling for attention, but you need some empirical evidence when you spout off
like this — something more than looking at the names
on a
bestseller list.
It works best in the long - run for authors to build up their readership than focus
on short term things
like bestseller lists.
Sounds
like if you want to be sure to get
on a
bestsellers list, pick a genre that's not loaded with a lot of writers.
Within a month, The Ark, which was getting excellent reviews from readers, reached number one
on the Kindle store's technothriller
bestseller list, higher than established authors
like Tom Clancy and Brad Thor.
If you're a writer at all
like me, you've imagined at one point or another seeing your book
on The New York Times
bestseller list.
I would
like to suggest there might be other factors involved, such as time
on the
bestseller's
list, time since new release, etc..
Based
on the interpretation in the Author Earnings report that B&N might reserve the top spots in
bestseller lists for Big Five - published books, an article
on The Passive Voice article further analyzes how the inaccuracy in the
lists might result in Nook's «heavy readers» and a «customer - centric organization» checking out the Amazon's
lists to make sure that they will be satisfied with finding the books that most readers
like.
In a post the other day about bargain prices for a couple of Elizabeth Peters ebooks in the Kindle Store, I made the point that readers may actually be able to influence publisher pricing behavior when we jump
on bargain prices
like those mentioned in the post, even while the Kindle
bestseller list shows some signs that Kindle owners are accepting agency - model pricing:
Publishers see more and more cheap books
on the
bestseller lists, and automatically think «We'll have to do the same thing to stay
on those
lists like we used to.
As always, for Kindle promotions
like this, it's usually a good idea to synchronize them with other book promotions
on the same day, as this will get you even higher in the rankings, and gain exposure to more readers who are just perusing the Amazon
bestseller lists.
When we tell regular civilians (ie media and readers and even booksellers not directly involved in indie publishing) that self - published titles regularly appear
on the venerable
bestseller lists of The New York Times and USA Today they look at us
like we have three heads.
Perhaps it's because, even though indie books have repeatedly cracked the most respectable
bestseller lists, they are still considered poseurs by many (conveniently those,
like the New York Times, in the position to commission such an article), who survive
on the kindness — and the ad dollars — of traditional publishing.
She is an international speaker, is the author of Book Marketing Book Trailers and Author Etiquette in a Nutshell which reached # 3
on Amazon's
bestseller list and has interviewed the
likes of Richard Dean Anderson, Stan Lee, Chris Evans, Dakota Famming and the casts of Fringe, White Collar and Psych.
What I was trying to do was explain that writers flock to ebooks because there are cases of writers converting ebooks to fame and fortune:
like Boyd Morrison who got a two book deal from Simon & Schuster from his Kindle sales of The Ark or even
like MaryJanice Davidson who is little known but has gone from publishing ebooks to spots
on NYT
Bestsellers and USA Today
Bestsellers list.
How many titles are actually
on Amazon
bestseller lists, and why isn't that number
listed anywhere (
like on the pie charts referring to those percentages, for example)?
It has sold more than 400,000 copies and landed
on the
bestseller lists alongside brand - name authors
like Michael Connelly, James Patterson and Kathryn Stockett.
New York Times will have a separate ebook
bestseller list beginning in 2011 which means that authors
like the Harlequin Presents authors who are routinely showing up
on the USA Today
list and the self published authors that are ranked high
on Kindle might show up instead of others.
It's safe to say that publications with titles
like American Journal of Translational Research or The Annals of Pharmacotherapy are never going to appear
on The New York Times
bestseller list.
But, the Amazon best sellers
list and the other sales charts out there
like NPD (or the NY Times
Bestsellers list for books or the iTunes
list for podcasts or Nielson Ratings for TV or Cinemascore for movies, etc.), are indicators of what the public wants and what the public is spending money
on.