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Book buzz: What's new on the list and in publishing
Book buzz: What's new on the list and in publishing
1. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer 2. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer 3. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer 4. Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer 5. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw by Jeff Kinney 6. The Shack by William P. Young 7. Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man by Steve Harvey 8. The Associate by John ...
Buying a book? It's probably by Stephenie Meyer
sfscope.com — USA Today is reporting a staggering percentage of book sales for one author in 2009...... (more) Buying a book? It's probably by Stephenie Meyer
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April 10, 2009 Links and Plugs
Bibliophile Stalker — ... Larbalestier on Quoting Your Own Work. Mike Brotherton on Kindle Thoughts. The Book Publicity Blog on Advertising vs. Publicity. Janice Hardy on Making Trouble. News The new Sword and Sorceress reading period begins on Saturday, April 18. VOYA Best Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror for Teens 2008 (PDF). Foreign editions of Zoran Zivkovic's books. Stephenie Meyer's books accounts for 16% of book sales in 2009. Norilana The Non-Sale Spring ...

Buying a book? It's probably by Stephenie Meyer
SFScope — Buying a book? It's probably by Stephenie Meyer By Ian Randal Strock April 10, 2009 Vampires! Teen love! Massive book sales! USA Today 's quarterly best seller list (for the first three months of 2009) shows Stephenie Meyer titles in the top four spots ( New Moon , Twilight , Eclipse , and Breaking Dawn as one through four), and another at #14 ( The Host ). Yet what is most remarkable about the list is the introductory paragraph, in which they note that "Sales of her novels accounted for about 16% of all book sales tracked by the list in the first quarter of 2009. ...

Stephenie Meyer Was The Book Industry In The First Quarter [Stephenie Meyer]
io9 — ... far as individual books are concerned, Frank Herbert's Dune is probably number one, with 12 million copies sold since its publication in 1965. As for science fiction series, that honor most likely goes to Isaac Asimov's original Foundation trilogy, which has sold a total of 20 million copies in its almost six decades in print. Well, at least there's some justice in the publishing world. The Host fan art from Zuly89 on Fanpop. [USA Today via SFScope] ...

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The growth of the self-publishing industry is a popular journalistic subject. Some articles on self-publishing, such as the New York Times's recent Self-Publishers Flourish as Writers Pay the Tab , provide reasonably balanced coverage of the issue, while others, such as Time's Books Gone Wild: ...