Celebrating Greatness
by Daisy Maryles -- Publishers Weekly, 3/17/2003
The HarperBusiness folk are celebrating one year on the Wall Street Journal business bestseller list and 16 months on the Business Week list for Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't. This week also marks its 31st appearance on PW's nonfiction chart. The publisher reports that the book by Jim Collins, published in October 2001, has attained a cult following outside the general business/management readership, and has been adopted in military, education and sports circles. Having sold more than 800,000 copies to date, Good to Great exemplifies Collins's previous book, Built to Last, which also remains on the bestseller radar on the WSJ and Business Week lists. The audio—available on both cassette and CD—has also been a fast seller for HarperAudio: the CD alone has gone back to press 17 times. First printing for the book was 70,000, and it has gone back to press 44 times.
