When we published this new best-seller list today, it caused some surprise in the publishing industry.
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Paul Getty, published in 1986 that was on the best-seller list of the NY for 13 weeks.
But she was famous, always touring, always working, always trying to cling to the New York Times best-seller list.
With 3, 000 copies sold in its first week, "Leapfrogging" hit No. 3 on the Journal's hardcover business best-seller list.
It reached the top of the New York Times best-seller list in 2009.
Occasionally, a writer will suddenly break onto the best-seller list in the middle or even the end of the series.
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Well, if the Digital Book World E-Book Best-Seller List is any indication, consumers say one thing and do another.
The Digital Book World E-Book Best-Seller List is powered by Iobyte Solutions, a firm that deals with such data.
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It hit the No. 1 spot again on the ebook best-seller list this week, another first for a self-published book.
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"That book hit the New York Times best-seller list, " Mr. Rudin boasted.
The book, published by Tor Books, is at No. 1 on The Wall Street Journal's hardcover-fiction best-seller list to be published Saturday.
In Britain, Ian Rankin typically publishes a new novel in October, and it tends to go to the top of the best-seller list.
Penguin Random House will dominate the best-seller list when the merger between the two large publishers closes in the second half of 2013.
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When "Abraham Lincoln" hit the best-seller list (and earned the praise of renowned Lincoln scholar Doris Kearns Goodwin), Mr. Grahame-Smith renegotiated his book contract.
In 1952 Peale wrote a best seller called The Power of Positive Thinking, which made the New York Times best-seller list for 187 weeks.
To make a business-book best-seller list, a title doesn't need to sell as many copies as in other, bigger categories, like general fiction and nonfiction.
But in the first quarter of 2013, Harlequin had a handful of hits on the best-seller list, indicating that it might be turning its digital performance around.
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About 4 million versions were sold of the paperback version alone, which spent 57 weeks on The New York Times best-seller list, the attorney general's report said.
Huh recently released a book with a collection of some of the funniest selections and it spent 13 weeks at the top of the New York Times best-seller list.
Mr. James notes that in Britain, he has beaten two popular American crime writers, Mr. Patterson and Jeffery Deaver, to the No. 1 spot on the Sunday Times best-seller list.
Once again, a self-published author has bested the competition from the likes of Penguin, Random House, Amazon, Macmillan and many other major players to climb atop the ebook best-seller list.
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Wait for You went on sale in late Feb. and hit the No. 1 spot on the Digital Book World Ebook Best-Seller list on March 10, a first for a self-published book.
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One of the most important factors in whether a brand will hit the best-seller list is whether it solves a real problem for consumers, meets a genuine need, or makes life better in some appreciable way.
Our methodology was simple: Look at our top-25 Ebook Best-Seller list since we launched the thing over the summer and see how many titles each publisher had on the list each week and then add them up.
The Joy of Sex ended up selling more than 10 million copies around the world - more than five million in the United States alone, where it stayed in the New York Times best-seller list for a decade.
Holly Ward is the third self-published author to hit No. 1 on the DBW Ebook Best-Seller list in 2013, an incredible achievement considering that her title, Damaged, is up against big books from major publishers and established authors.
The book is out of print, but frenzied demand from reporters and congressional staff members desperate for clues about how Rehnquist will run Clinton's trial drove it to No. 23 on Amazon.com's best-seller list and persuaded the publisher, William Morrow and Co.
Each of his cookbooks has made it to the best-seller list, and both cable programs are big hits: "The Essence of Emeril" earned two daytime Emmy nominations in 2001 and 2002, and "Emeril Live" won a 1997 Cable Ace Award for best informational series.
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