OK, but are Trump books really selling as much as it feels like they are?
Disclaimer: the methodology herein is, at best, dubious. But after reading Jennifer Calfas’s report for TIME that the top three best-selling books in 2018 so far have all been related… Read more »
Killing Bill O’Reilly’s writing career
As we reported earlier this year, Bill O’Reilly—serial sexual harasser and the guy who called Sunday’s massacre in Las Vegas “the price of freedom”—isn’t selling quite as many books as he… Read more »
Will everyone please stop feeding the hand that feeds Regnery Publishing?
Statistics is hard. I get it. We work in book publishing, and we are people of letters. We draw from these artsy little shape-thingies here assembled some semblance of profundity, if not raw knowledge… Read more »
The Making of Donald Trump is a bestseller for two weeks running
We’re more than a little excited to confirm that The Making of Donald Trump, the definitive account of Trump’s rise, has just enjoyed its second week as a New York Times bestseller! And… Read more »
When it comes to making a bestseller, algorithms are good, but money is better
Neil Balthaser, whose start-up Intellogo we’ve covered on MobyLives before, has heard about The Bestseller Code, the recent book by book-tech duo Jodie Archer and Matthew Jockers that takes as its… Read more »
Emma Watson is launching a feminist book club
On Tuesday, we asked Is Bill Gates the new Oprah? Today, we ask Is Emma Watson also the new Oprah, and maybe actually a better new Oprah? Ok, ok, enough… Read more »
From the pen of a French beggar, a bestseller is born
Jean-Marie Roughol, a panhandler on the streets of Paris for 27 years and running, has sold upwards of 50,000 copies of his memoir, My Life as a Panhandler: A Life on… Read more »
Hail & Farewell Ruth Rendell
The crime writer Ruth Rendell died on Saturday 2nd May at the age of 85. Rendell was best known for her 24 Inspector Wexford books, which she began writing in 1964,… Read more »
Mills & Boon undergoes radical change
In a comment piece for The Telegraph, the writer and author Radhika Sanghani argues that Mills & Boon is undergoing radical change. According to Sanghani a crop of new novels… Read more »
Got $200,000? Congratulations, you’re a bestselling author.
A church in Seattle is answering some uncomfortable questions after proof surfaced that they had paid an outside firm over $200,000 to ensure the placement of a book by their pastor… Read more »