Tracking Amazon: Kindle's New #1
Feb 16, 2012
Feb 16, 2012
Brian Freemantle's thriller Ice Age has moved to the top of the Amazon Kindle charts one day after having been featured in the Kindle Daily Deal. The book, which is a digital-only title from Open Road, was published in September 2011.
The Roundup for Content / e-books
Publishing news from across the Web
Readers in China expect their e-books to be a very low price.
In just over a year, Amazon has crossed the 2 million mark.
The New York Times looks at the burgeoning market for short form content, focusing on Kindle Singles.
"Certain developments in the e-book marketing show some alarming trends that may make it a kingdom of oligopoly where things are decided not by readers but by Apple, Amazon and Barnes & Noble."
Barbara Vey
As readers we really don't know or necessarily care what goes into the making of a book. Our main concern is reading that amazing story that will transport us to other times and places and take us aw...
Josie Leavitt
I have talked a lot about community in ShelfTalker, and usually I mean the community of the bookstore. But as an owner of a business in a village, I have a whole other community available to me, the o...
Rose Fox
Mythopoeic and Sturgeon Awards finalists; Spectrum winners....
Adam Boretz
The penultimate installment in our Informal Audie Awards Poll looks at a category that seems to get more and more popular every year: audiobooks read by the author....
Top Bestsellers
| Guilty Wives | Audio Fiction |
| Killing Lincoln (unabr.) | Audio Nonfiction |
| Serpent's Shadow | Children's Fiction |
| Duckling Gets a Cookie!? | Children's Picture Book |
| Hunger Games | Children's Series & Tie-ins |
| Blue Exorcist, Volume 3 | Graphic Novels |
| Deadlocked: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel | Hardcover Fiction |
| Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson | Hardcover Nonfiction |
| The Lucky One | Mass Market Paper |
| Fifty Shades of Grey: Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy | Trade Paper |
