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Friday, April 26, 2013

eBook bestsellers

Digital Book World has published its list of digital best sellers for the first quarter of 2013

And there is a big surprise


The big story so far this year is Hachette. Driven by the success of series like Beautiful Creatures, some 27% of all books on the list so far this year have been titles from Hachette.

Random House and Penguin are not far behind with 87 titles and 42 titles, respectively. Combined, Penguin Random House has published roughly 40% of all ebook best-sellers this year.

Just behind Random-Penguin is the big surprise: self-published titles. In the first 13 weeks of the year, 22 self-published titles have hit the best-seller list (7% of all titles), including two No. 1 spots.

RankPublisherAppearancesPoints
1Hachette881301
2Random House87823
3Penguin42421
4Self-published22393
5Macmillan18213
6Scholastic17259
7HarperCollins15151
8Amazon11130
9Houghton Mifflin Harcourt757
10Simon & Schuster769

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