Some of the findings confirm what retailers already know by glancing at the best-seller lists.
It also sailed to the top of the best-seller lists and is winning widespread critical praise.
It had been thought that inexpensive e-books, many self-published, were starting to control the best-seller lists.
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Paul Getty, published in 1986 that was on the best-seller list of the NY for 13 weeks.
The book debuted high on the best-seller lists, launching Mr. Grahame-Smith virtually overnight as an internationally best-selling author.
Claritin, thanks to years of great advertising and a pretty benign side effect profile, has always been the best-seller.
Mr. Howey just returned from book tours in Germany, Scotland, Wales and England, where "Wool" recently hit the best-seller lists.
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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His books regularly hit the best-seller lists throughout much of Europe, and in England he often claims the No. 1 spot.
Outside the best-seller lists, authors still managed to illuminate and reflect on the social trends and political upheavals of the decade.
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.
Mr. Hosseini's 2003 debut novel, "The Kite Runner, " about an Afghan refugee's attempt to atone for a childhood betrayal, spent nearly two years on the best-seller lists.
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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In 2003, "The Devil Wears Prada" reached the top of the best-seller lists and went on to inspire the hit 2006 film starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway.
The book was published in Britain and the U.S. more than three months ago and has never been far from the top of the best-seller lists since then.
He also co-authored the best-seller Buck Up, Suck Up and Come Back When You Foul Up with Carville, as well as Take it Back: Our Party, Our Country, Our Future.
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.
Other entries at Tribeca include films from Neil LaBute (the domestic drama "Some Velvet Morning, " starring Stanley Tucci), Mira Nair (the best-seller adaptation "The Reluctant Fundamentalist, " with Kate Hudson) and Neil Jordan (the vampire tale "Byzantium, " with Saoirse Ronan).
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.
The most articulate and powerful of the finger-pointers was author John Steinbeck, whose book The Grapes of Wrath had not only leapt onto the best-seller list after its publication in April but was also well on its way to becoming seared into the public's imagination forever.
The record was the second best-seller of the year, selling 3.1 million copies in just over two months.
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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Adapted by David Benioff from the international best-seller by Khaled Hosseini.
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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Microsoft's other software, including its Office 97 suite, does not even make the top-20 list, outsold by the likes of racing games, Tomb Raider's pneumatic Lara Croft, and the perennial best-seller, Myst.
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.
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