Volume 261
Issue 16
04/21/2014
Bestseller Stat Shot
Last week, we lost one of the great writers of our time: Gabriel García Márquez died at age 87 in Mexico City. The Colombian author was awarded the Nobel prize in 1982, sold millions of books worldwide, and is generally credited with creating magical realism. His books can be found on pretty much every M.F.A. syllabus, but he also won the Oprah seal of approval, and when she picked Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude for her book club, sales of those titles shot to levels normally seen only for books by big-name commercial authors. Here are the English-language print sales figures for García Márquez’s three most popular titles, across multiple formats and editions.
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Your summer reading, solved: announcing PW’s Best Summer Books of 2014.
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A report from the Linework NW Illustration and Comics Festival in Portland, Ore.
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The most-read review on publishersweekly.com last week was, once again, The One by Kiera Cass (HarperTeen).
Blogs
The best American cities for writers to live in, a Gone Girl movie trailer poll, another great moment in epigraph history, and more.
An independent bookseller’s take on the benefit of reading print books over e-books.
Authors
Elaine Viets on Catnapped (NAL), the 13th title in her Dead End Jobs mystery series, and on the benefits—and problems—of having an amateur sleuth.
Podcasts
Interviews with artists from the recent MoCCA Arts Festival in New York, including Charles Kochman, editorial director of Abrams ComicArts.
The latest on the Authors Guild’s appeal in the Google case. Plus, perspective on Len Riggio’s decision to sell off a chunk of his Barnes & Noble shares, and the ALA’s fledgling book awards, the Carnegie Medals.
Listen to these and more at iTunes or publishersweekly.com/podcasts!
Colman Andrews, a founding editor of Saveur and the author of My Usual Table (Ecco), talks about his decadent life eating in the world’s best restaurants. Plus, PW deputy reviews editor Gabe Habash on this year’s Pulitzer winners.
