Early Stats
by Daisy Maryles -- Publishers Weekly, 1/5/2004
Our feature next week will analyze the 2003 bestseller charts, showing which houses gained and/or lost share on the weekly charts and how veteran and first-time authors fared. Here is a preview: in 2003, only four hardcover novels had runs of 15 or more weeks (in 2002, there were five). Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones had a 40-week run in 2003, plus 25 weeks in 2002. The 65-week total sets the longest-running record for a book of hardcover fiction published in the last five years. In trade paperback, there were 18 novels that had runs of 15 or more weeks.
