Charts New Zealand
Tom Tivnan runs down the Guest of Honour’s top authors and publishers
WITH E L James dominating the top of New Zealand’s bestseller lists, it is no surprise that Random House has been the main player in Nielsen BookScan’s chart of NZ publishers, with a 15.6% market share. As we have seen on the Kiwi top 20 charts on page six, the three Fifty Shades books hold positions one to three in the overall chart (and the box set number 18). James has shifted almost $3.3m
thus far in 2012, out of New Zealand’s $147.7m market. Tus, out of every $1 spent in NZ bookshops, customers spent two cents on Fifty Shades books—and she earned almost a quarter (23.5%) of RH’s BookScan revenue. Te public also shelled out for Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games trilogy—helped by the film which was released at the beginning of 2012. Collins had a stonking year with $2.1m sold through BookScan NZ and is responsible for a stunning 53.8% of Scholastic’s BookScan sales. Children’s has been very strong
thus far this year at the top of the Kiwi author charts, with five of the top 10 from the sector. Te author list is based on volume, which helps those with a hefty backlist. Tus, Dr Seuss, who has had 163 separate
Chart topper: E L James Pos Publisher Random rules
TOP PUBLISHERS Value
%share
1 Random House $13,957,651 15.6% 2 Penguin 3 Hachette
$10,302,888 11.5% $9,040,465 10.1%
4 HarperCollins $7,832,612 8.8% 5 Scholastic
$3,910,041 4.4%
6 Pan Macmillan $2,764,674 3.1% 7 Pearson
$2,294,335 2.6%
8 Allen & Unwin $1,819,690 2.0% 9 John Wiley
10 Hinkler Books $1,198,365
$1,553,029 1.8% 1.3%
ISBNs charting through BookScan NZ in 2012, trails only James and Collins, while Kiwi picture book author Lynley Dodd, with 137 editions, is in fourth place. American heavy hitter James
Patterson, at number nine, also benefits from the weight of backlist. Meanwhile, 52% of Lee Child’s NZ revenue comes from his 17th Jack Reacher novel, A Wanted Man. Te 10th bestselling “author”,
Geronimo Stilton, may perhaps be unknown to some. Stilton is actually a Scholastic character—a mouse who is a journalist for the New Mouse City Rodent’s Gazette—originally created by Italian children’s author Elisabetta Dami for Milan’s Edizioni Piemme.
TOP 10 NEW ZEALAND’S CHART-TOPPING AUTHORS Pos Author 1
Value James, E L
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10
Collins, Suzanne Dr Seuss
Dodd, Lynley
Martin, George R R Child, Lee
Kinney, Jeff
Langbein, Annabel Patterson, James Stilton, Geronimo
$3,274,504 $2,095,712 $423,606 $479,188 $787,451 $766,805 $383,897 $782,236 $481,810 $272,625
Charts compiled by Nielsen BookScan NZ from 01/08/12 to 07/09/12 10 THE BOOKSELLER DAILY AT FRANKFURT | 12 OCTOBER 2012
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$18.87 $19.75 $10.15 $12.62 $22.48 $24.62 $15.35 $34.70 $26.07 $14.79
ISBN count 9
34
163 137 44 63 39 14
172 77
Volume 173,521 106,104 41,715 37,957 35,033 31,151
25,013 22,544 18,480 18,429
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