11,020 Exclusive Digital Bestseller Lists Newcomers rule the e-ranking Tom Tivnan T


week’s number one


This


GEORGIA SUMMERS: RIDING HIGH


AT NUMBER ONE


through Nielsen BookScan’s Total Consumer Market for her début, which was aided by its nod as the Fairyloot subscription service’s January Adult pick, plus a Waterstones exclusive edition. This follows the previous number one, Saara El-Arifi’s Faebound (HarperVoyager), which had similar boosts from Fairyloot, Waterstones and the Goldsboro Books’ Sci-Fi and Fantasy Fellowship.


This is the tip of the iceberg. In the past 52 weeks, a subscription box


title has rocketed to the top spot of Original Fiction 16 times, and has topped the Children’s & YA Fiction chart on six occa- sions. Almost every author on a “subbies” monthly list—particu- larly if featured by Fairyloot or Illumicrate—has achieved a personal-best weekly TCM total, usually in excess of 10,000 units. Especially as Waterstones (and the publishers) are clearly trying to align to subscrip- tion releases with exclusive editions. And yet. One wonders if this model truly builds a fanbase for these authors or is merely a


one-week shot of sales adrenaline that dissipates quickly. El-Arifi’s Faebound, for example, has had a tpical post-subscription result: it shiſted 1,128 units in its second week, 92% down on its launch. Or Continues overleaf 


 13


hough Harlan Coben’s I Will Find You claimed the number one spot for a second consecutive week in the Publisher E-book


Ranking—and Nita Prose’s long-running staple The Maid was second—newcomers accounted for six entries in this chart and half of the top 20 (available on The Bookseller’s website). At third, Robert Hardman’s Charles III is the top débutant, a rare sighting for non-fiction in the top 10. The “inside story” of CIII’s ascension—I think by slaying the previous ruler on Bosworth Field, though I’ve not closely followed these matters—has shifted 17,000 units in print through Nielsen BookScan. Prose’s prose hit second in the Bookstat charts,


too, though it was some 1,500 copies behind Before the Dawn, the eighth detective Karen Hart procedural by Oxford University chemistry researcher turned bestselling crime author D S Butler. It is Butler’s first Bookstat number one; last year’s Find Her Alive (Thomas & Mercer) débuted in second.


Bookstat E-Book Top 10 1 


Title


2 The Maid  


9 The Lost Bookshop 10Inheritance


    


Before the Dawn 


3 Fool Me Once 4 Verity


5 The Girls Who Disappeared 6 Random in Death 7 The Secret Hours 8 Broken Light


Author


D S Butler Nita Prose


Harlan Coben Colleen Hoover Claire Douglas J D Robb


Mick Herron Joanne Harris Evie Woods Nora Roberts


Total TCM volume for Top 50 number one The City of Stardust


ATOP THE PILE FOR A SECOND WEEK


It was a good week for the Hachette group—the


UK’s biggest traditional trade e-book house (see Lead Story, pp06-07)—with half of the Top 10, including two from Nora Roberts: Inheritance and Random in Death under her J D Robb pseudonym.


Clarification Hachette has stated that Verity sold 5,698 units; Secret Hours 7,363; Broken Light 5,228; Inheritance 3,773; and Random in Death 3,868.


HARLAN COBEN:


Imprint


Thomas & Mercer 1662512247 HarperCollins


0008435745


Random House 1473519039 Sphere Penguin


Little, Brown Baskerville Orion


1408726617 1405951197 0349437385 1399800563 1398710856


One More Chapter 1135232559 Little, Brown


0349437477


ISBN (+978) Volume 8,260 6,750 6,435 6,417 4,663 4,551 4,179 3,993 3,853 3,849


Week ending 27th January 2024. Key New Up Same Down. Bookstat generates its charts by tracking the movement of e-books, print books and audio titles on online retailers’ websites and calibrating against publisher-supplied data; the volume and value figures are estimates. For more information, contact info@bookstat.com.


The Publisher E-Book Ranking Title


Author


1 I Will Find You 2 The Maid 3 Charles III


4 The Wedding of the Year 5 The Drowning Isle  


    


6 Tomorrow, and Tomorrow... 7 The Spy Coast 


8 Lessons in Chemistry Godkiller


9  


10The Nightmare in Him


Harlan Coben Nita Prose


Robert Hardman Jill Mansell


Simon McCleave Gabrielle Zevin Tess Gerritsen Bonnie Garmus Hannah Kaner Suzanne Wright


Week ending 20th January 204.4. Key New Up SameSame Down. Bookstat generates its charts by tracking the movement of e-books, print books and audio titles on online retailers’ websites and calibrating against publisher-supplied Canongate & Joffe Books.


6th January 2022 Key New Up Down. Titles with a selling price below £2 are excluded.


Participating publishers: PRH UK, Hachette, HarperCollins, Pan Macmillan, Bloomsbury, Simon & Schuster, Bonnier Books UK, data; the volume and value figures are estimates. For more information, contact info@bookstat.com.


Imprint Penguin


HarperCollins Macmillan Headline Avon


Vintage Bantam


Transworld


ISBN (+978) 1529158854 0008435745


Price (£) £2.99 £2.99


1035027507 £12.99 1472287939 0008620196 1473597402 0857505194 1473594531


HarperVoyager 0008521509 Piatkus


0349434582


£9.99 £2.99 £5.99 £9.99 £5.99 £2.99 £6.99


Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36