What did Booktopia’s customers buy in 2011? Here are the twenty highest selling non-fiction titles… 1. The Dukan Diet by Pierre Dukan Nothing could have prepared us for the hit of the year. One day we were Dukan free, the next day every order seemed to leave containing a copy of The Dukan Diet. In [...]
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What did Booktopia’s customers buy in 2011? Here are the twenty highest selling fiction titles… 1. Inheritance by Christopher Paolini Keeping in mind that the fourth and final instalment of Paolini’s Inheritance Cycle was only released in November, hitting the number one sales spot for the entire year is an amazing achievement. Pre-orders for Inheritance [...]
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Publishing sensation Amanda Hocking’s story reads like a fairy tale. She self-published her novels and sold a million copies within a year or so. The very thought of such overnight success can cause normally quite reasonable unpublished authors to lose their heads. On the strength of a headline – ‘Self-published author makes money’ – thousands [...]
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Over the weekend while I was doing the weekly shop I found Mr Thirteen buried in a fridge digging for a Coke bottle with his name on it. His name wasn’t there. He was so annoyed he bought one which said Giulia, because he didn’t believe it was a real name. This morning I arrived [...]
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From Penguin… “For seventy-five years, Penguin has united the best in literature with the best in graphic design, creating some of the world’s most recognizable books. To help celebrate our anniversary, we’ve chosen a few of our favorite books and are presenting them with new covers specially designed by some of the world’s best artists [...]
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From The Australian newspaper article: Paging all authors by Rosemary Neill IN an industrial estate in Sydney’s north lies a warehouse that may represent the future of bookselling. It’s in an unglamorous location next to an electricity substation and it’s an adamantly low-key operation; it houses a management team, but there isn’t a suit, tie [...]
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Small and perfectly formed, the flipback is built to last and it doesn’t leave you with a dislocated shoulder from lugging it around all day in your handbag.
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The book is dead. Long live the book, says John Purcell
The book is terminally ill, say those in the know, and lies near death in a private hospital plugged into a life support machine and surrounded by close friends and relatives. Right now, across the world commentators are drafting moving eulogies. Commemorative plates and tea towels are being made. Songs are being written. A mini-series [...]
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