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USA Today announced today that its bestseller list will now include Kindle sales in its rankings. “Since October of 1993, USA Today’s Best-Selling Books List has provided our readers with a complete picture of sales in the publishing industry,” said Susan Weiss, managing editor of the national newspaper’s Life section. “With the addition of sales figures from Kindle, we have created a more robust list which reflects the new platforms consumers and readers are using to purchase books.”
This list will run in Thursday’s edition of USA Today and online at booklist.usatoday.com.
“We are thrilled to be contributing Kindle book sales information to USA Today for their comprehensive bestseller list for books customers,” said Laura Porco, director of Kindle books. “Given the great overlap of taste between Kindle customers and physical book buyers, the USA Today Best-Selling Books List is truly reflective of what customers are buying regardless of format.”
You can read USA Today’s release in its entirety here.
Kindle sales don’t seem to have been posted yet when we visited the list late Wednesday evening; only hardcover and paperback sales were noted. The top five were
#1 Common Sense by Glenn Beck, #2 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling, #3 New Moon by Stephenie Meyer, #4 Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer, and #5 My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult.
USA Today’s is by no means the first e-book bestseller list. Fictionwise, now wholly owned by Barnes & Noble, has kept one for years and it provides fascinating information on the performance of titles in e-books such as recent bestseller by title and by author, highest rated e-books (rated by fan vote) and all-time highest rated e-books.
The International Digital Publishing Forum (formally the Open eBook Forum), the trade and standards association for the eBook industry, has kept a tally of e-book bestsellers by member publishers. In October 2005 for instance the top five e-titles were:
#1 The Colorado Kid by Stephen King
#2 My Fair Temptress by Christina Dodd
#3 The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly
#4 It Happened One Autumn by Lisa Kleypas
#5 MindWar by Darrell Bain
The IDPF’s list was culled from PDA’s, smartphones, eBook readers and PCs. In October 2005 Kindle was a still a gleam in Jeff Bezos’s eye.
Richard Curtis
USA Today announced today that its bestseller list will now include Kindle sales in its rankings. “Since October of 1993, USA Today’s Best-Selling Books List has provided our readers with a complete picture of sales in the publishing industry,” said Susan Weiss, managing editor of the national newspaper’s Life section. “With the addition of sales figures from Kindle, we have created a more robust list which reflects the new platforms consumers and readers are using to purchase books.”
