tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36622997.post2919355568045597435..comments2024-03-14T04:35:06.209+13:00Comments on Beattie's Book Blog - unofficial homepage of the New Zealand book community: Beattie's Book Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01505389626725979100noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36622997.post-35758862502309094552008-05-28T17:12:00.000+12:002008-05-28T17:12:00.000+12:00O, may I add that the previous Booksellers' Best S...O, may I add that the previous Booksellers' Best Sellers list (rather than the Neilson Bookscan) actually<BR/>provided a more accurate picture of what was selling, despite its limitations?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36622997.post-78907217233200725512008-05-28T14:58:00.000+12:002008-05-28T14:58:00.000+12:00Kia ora - bestseller lists have concerned me for q...Kia ora - bestseller lists have concerned me for quite a while. The overseas sales factor is one matter: another is that bestseller fiction lists here show 5 titles (whilst non-fiction & international fiction lists show 10...)<BR/><BR/>A related irritation is the NZ Booksellers 'platinum' etc.<BR/>awards: these are only for titles published in NZ by NZ publishers. Fair enough? Not when your publishers go extinct (as happened with 'the bone people' - both Spiral Collective5 and Hodder & Stoughton were gone by the time the awards were established (despite them selling well over 90,000 copies here by 1990 - and that doesnt include any of the paperback sales from Macmillan/Picador.<BR/><BR/>Joan has had some publicity here over the years, but not nearly as much as she deserves - her books are wholly absorbing. And I totally agree with maggie apropos the Six Pack-Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36622997.post-45575561018790720292008-05-28T14:30:00.000+12:002008-05-28T14:30:00.000+12:00Very interesting.Very interesting.Rachael Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07690377694600952816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36622997.post-90173182267140498812008-05-28T13:49:00.000+12:002008-05-28T13:49:00.000+12:00Yes, I think best seller lists can be elusive for ...Yes, I think best seller lists can be elusive for some good novels - they may be selling well over a longer period but not peaking at the right time. Last year, four or five, back-lists from VUP (excellent novels I must add) made it on to the best seller list in one week - I think they had been remaindered or some such thing - and somewhat embarrassingly came up to skew that week's results. There is such a small window really for some novels and of course, it is self-fulfilling, if you do sneak on to the best seller list, even the bottom rung - your book gathers momentum.<BR/><BR/>I have some issues with the Six Pack for the same reason (but don't begrudge the writers their success) - it's just that the price and incentive for purchasing is somewhat different.<BR/><BR/>On a more positive note, how good that we now know a lot more about Joan and how extraordinary that she has been a "best seller" offshore for so long and had so little publicity here in NZ.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com