| Your local list of bestsellers | | Posted Thursday, February 02, 2006 12:59:28 PM by Rose Martins | Bestsellers are not only confined to the bestsellers list published in your local newspaper and/or magazine. There are bestsellers lists for every possible genre and culture of books. And bestsellers lists are not just limited to physical books. 
There are bestsellers lists for online and audio books too. There are bestsellers in fiction books, and bestsellers in non-fiction books. There are bestsellers in the teenage book category and in the religious Christian category.
There are bestsellers of latest releases of new book titles and books that are bestsellers nationally and internationally, and bestsellers within a culture group. Basically every type and genre of book, has a bestsellers list.
With millions of copies of books sold worldwide, getting rated on a bestsellers list is no mean feat. Certain bestsellers lists are held in higher esteem than others, but every bestsellers list carries a certain amount of credibility.
And you might think that bestsellers lists are only of the modern world. Think again. There are bestsellers lists that have been around since the start of the 20th century, and probably some that date even earlier.
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| | | Scholastic to Publish Mega-Bestselling Author Meg Cabot | | Posted Tuesday, February 06, 2007 12:47:15 PM by Blog57 Team | | NEW YORK, Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Scholastic, the global children's publishing, education and media company, has won the rights to publish Meg Cabot, one of today's most popular and bestselling authors for teens. The deal was negotiated on behalf of Meg Cabot by Laura Langlie of Laura Langlie Literary Agency. Meg Cabot, who took the publishing world by storm with her phenomenally successful Princess Diaries books, heads off in a dazzling new direction with the launch of three brand-new series. As part of its "Meg Cabot Girl-World Domination" campaign, Scholastic will publish Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls, a smart, funny series for readers ages 8-12 launching in spring 2008. In addition to the Allie Finkle books, two new trilogies for teens, Airhead and Abandon, will be published in 2008 and 2009.... | |
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| | | Wine and food tasting benefit set for Feb. 8 | | Posted Thursday, January 11, 2007 2:50:33 PM by Blog57 Team | | The Greater Palm Harbor Area Chamber of Commerce's wine and food tasting event, "Evening Extraordinaire," is scheduled for 6 to 9 p.m. Feb. 8 at the Safety Harbor Resort and Spa. The event features cuisine from local restaurants and samples of domestic and foreign wines as well as a silent and a live auction. Proceeds benefit chamber programs that include economic development efforts, scholarship funds and small business assistance. Tickets are available through the chamber office, 1151 Nebraska Ave., for $30 or at the door for $35. Call (727) 784-4287. LARGO Bestselling author to discuss new book Bestselling author and former Chicago Tribune columnist Bob Greene will discuss his newest book, And You Know You Should Be Glad, an exploration of the power of friendship, at 1 p.m.... | |
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| | | From blog to your bookshelf | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 6:48:55 AM by Blog57 Team | | Seth Godin must have a good head for business, because he's become a bestselling author by bundling together a bunch of things that he also gives away for free and sells them like hotcakes. The Fast Company magazine columnist's latest book, "Small is the New Big," is yet another Godin biz bestseller, but much of it has already appeared on his blog at http://sethgodin.typepad.com/. Godin has a reputation for being among America's best minds when it comes to marketing, establishing his offbeat and entertaining voice in such books as "Unleashing the Ideavirus," "All Marketers are Liars" and "Purple Cow." By his own admission, Godin is something of a ranter, but the rants contain many kernels of insight, and his blog is where he almost invariably rants first. While some of Godin's remarks can seem glib and lack supporting arguments, he's at his best when delving deeper into subjects like "The two things that kill marketing creativity" or "Five common cliches (done wrong)." ?Rob Hubbard, Pioneer Press Bumper crop of mergers Corporations are smitten by the urge to merge as never before.... | |
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| | | 1. The right not to read | | Posted Saturday, October 28, 2006 2:49:37 PM by Blog57 Team | | People often tell me that they don't have time to read novels. I never know how to reply. I try to look suitably respectful of their busy lives, the houses and spouses and jobs and children that must require their constant attention, leaving them no time to get lost inside a book. And I try not to give any hint of what I really think of someone who doesn't read novels. .... | |
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| | | Medical Practice Audiobooks Offered on Apple iPod nano (PRODUCT) RED Special Edition designed to Help Eliminate AIDS in | | Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 6:47:20 AM by Blog57 Team | | (PRWEB) October 17, 2006 -- Today, Greenbranch Publishing announced a new, limited product offering of the iPod nano (PRODUCT) RED Special Edition preloaded with 2 of Greenbranch Publishing's bestselling books, Secrets of the Best-Run Practices, by Judy Capko and The Prescription for Financial Health: An Authoritative Guide for Physicians by Joel Blau and Ronald Paprocki. Greenbranch Publishing will give $20 of each purchase to the Global Fund to fight AIDS " /> AIDS in Africa. .... | |
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| | | Blind, Disabled Prodigy Poet Shirley Cheng to Empower Canadian ... | | Posted Thursday, October 12, 2006 2:19:46 PM by Blog57 Team | | Shirley Cheng (b. 1983), a blind and physically disabled motivational speaker, poet, author and contributing author of eight books,has had severe juvenile rheumatoid arthritis since infancy, and did not receive education until age eleven. She mastered sixth-grade level in all areas after about 180 days of schooling in her lifetime. After a successful eye surgery, She hopes to earn multiple science doctorates from Harvard University. Despite her multiple disabilities, Shirley is living the life she loves and she empowers, inspires, and motivates others to do the same. Be inspired by her books, including The Revelation of a Star's Endless Shine, and her newsletter Inspiration from a Blind, to which you can subscribe via her site at http://www.shirleycheng.com author's email author's web site view author's other articles .... | |
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| | | The mouth that roared | | Posted Tuesday, October 10, 2006 2:47:27 AM by Blog57 Team | | From restaurants to books to TV to crockery, it seems Gordon Ramsay can do anything - except keep his mouth shut, writes Felicity Carter. HE'S a former professional footballer, a Michelin-starred chef, a bestselling cookbook writer, a TV star and the author of a new autobiography, Humble Pie. But what's made him really famous - the reason that people adore watching him - is his foul mouth. Gordon Ramsay is a one-man, plate-hurling, swearing machine. What's coming down the phone line from London to The Age, though, is polite, even charming. "I'm looking forward to Melbourne," he says of his upcoming Australian promotional tour. "It's the food capital, after all, isn't it?" Ramsay says the quality of Australian produce excites him, and he's worried that if he ever stayed here too long he wouldn't want to leave.... | |
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| | | The writer behind the gritty JT LeRoy books unmasks herself as a 40-year-old woman | | Posted Saturday, September 30, 2006 10:47:23 PM by Blog57 Team | | SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The author at the centre of an elaborate literary hoax is finally coming clean - or so she says. Laura Albert, 40, a New York City native, is acknowledging that she is JT LeRoy, the supposed male author of gritty, graphic, bestselling novels like "Sarah" and "The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things," which was made into a film. In a story in The Paris Review's fall issue, Albert admits that she invented the character in therapy. Her psychiatrist encouraged her to write down her stories. "I wish I could've had my own voice," she told The Associated Press at a tea party Wednesday in San Francisco. "It's not unusual that people can't be themselves." When an admirer approached and asked her to sign a book, she asked whose autograph the man wanted.... | |
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| | | Opinion: The Smoke Is Rising On Climate Change Deniers | | Posted Thursday, September 21, 2006 10:47:33 AM by Blog57 Team | | Intellpuke: The following column was written by George Monbiot for the Guardian's environment section. It appeared in that section Tuesday, Sept. 19. In it he discusses efforts by ExxonMobil to pay organizations and individuals to deny global warming is taking place and also criticizes some British reporters for writing articles making the same claims denying that global warming is happening, claims which Monbiot says are downright false. Mr. Monbiot's column follows: It takes quite a lot to get Britian's most august scientific body, the Royal Society, riled. But now it has had enough. It is trying to bring an end to a ten-year campaign of disinformation about the world's most important scientific issue. Throughout that period, journalists who have no background in science, and who appear to know less about the subject than the average 12-year-old, have been filling the pages of the Mail, the Telegraph and the Times with articles claiming that manmade global warming is a fraud.... | |
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| | | Active Interest Media, Inc. Acquires Yoga Journal | | Posted Friday, September 08, 2006 4:47:37 AM by Blog57 Team | | EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Sept. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Active Interest Media, Inc. (AIM) has acquired Yoga Journal, AIM President and Chief Executive Officer Efrem "Skip" Zimbalist III announced today. The new acquisition will add to AIM's growing portfolio of enthusiast magazines, consumer shows, books and Internet sites. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Yoga Journal (www.yogajournal.com) is a multi-platform media company that produces an award-winning magazine, sell-out conferences, and bestselling books and DVDs. Since 2000, ad revenue for the magazine has quadrupled while circulation has tripled to 331,000 (ABC audited). In the last five years, the magazine has won four Folio Editorial Excellence Awards for "Best Health and Fitness Magazine" in the country. The magazine is published internationally in Russia, Italy, Brazil, Spain, Thailand, Hong Kong and Singapore.... | |
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