Bestseller Stat Shot
Daniel Silva’s The English Girl (Harper) knocked Dan Brown’s Inferno (Doubleday) from the top of the Hardcover Fiction and Overall Bestseller lists in its first week on sale, notching 44,259 print units. This is the second time in a row Silva’s debut dethroned a king of the fiction pack. This same week in 2012, Silva’s The Fallen Angel cleared 40,746 units in its first week, replacing Deborah E. Harkness’s Shadow of Night on top of the Hardcover Fiction list. But what a difference a year makes: 50 Shades of Grey was the top-selling book in the country in 2012, with over 4.6 million print copies sold. Source: Nielsen BookScan
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Tip Sheet
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Stephanie Evanovich talks about her debut novel, Big Girl Panties (Morrow), and PW comics reviews editor Heidi MacDonald recaps all the action at San Diego Comic-Con. Next week, Michael Paterniti joins us to discuss his new book, The Telling Room (Dial). Listen here.
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Podcasts
Week Ahead
As the book business goes digital, PW senior writer Andrew Albanese talks with the Copyright Clearance Center’s Chris Kenneally about the future of seasonal selling. And just how much did the Apple case cost publishers?
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Claudia Piñeiro, Argentina’s leading crime writer and author of A Crack in the Wall (Bitter Lemon), talks about Buenos Aires, Leonard Cohen, and her previous life as an accountant.
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