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Posts Tagged ‘urban fantasy’

Urban fantasy: confirmed undead

Aug 24th, 2009
by Tim Holman.
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Much of the discussion concerning the general state of the SFF market tends to ignore urban fantasy. However, remove urban fantasy from the current SFF bestseller charts, and they collapse. Most of the bestselling authors disappear; many of the most successful new authors launched over recent years disappear; many of the authors with most rapidly growing sales [...]

What’s selling?

Aug 11th, 2009
by Tim Holman.
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All trade publishers now use data from Nielsen Bookscan. Skip if you already know all this, but briefly Bookscan tracks retail book sales (i.e. actual sales to consumers). It’s an incredibly useful tool for gathering market intelligence. It allows us, for example, to find out quickly and accurately how well a particular title is selling, and we can retrieve data relating [...]

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