Success Redux
by Daisy Maryles -- Publishers Weekly, 9/23/2002
Two 2001 bestsellers are having a great run on the paperback charts. Leading the list this week is Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections, the fifth bestselling hardcover novel (from FSG) in 2001, with sales of 930,000 copies from September to the end of the year. It had a 29-week run on the weekly charts. The Picador paperback had a 400,000 first printing and the publisher went back for another 100,000 before publication. The author is scheduled for the Today Show October 1.
David McCullough's John Adams was the fourth nonfiction hardcover bestseller last year, and it enjoyed a 48-week run on PW's charts. The hardcover, from Simon & Schuster, has nearly 1.5 million copies in print. The Touchstone paperback is #2 on PW's trade paper list this week, with 450,000 copies in print. The author did a 14-station (mostly NPR) radio drive-time tour.
