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Originally Posted by Rob Lister
I'm assuming that since all the books on the best-seller lists are available in e-book format (with a few possible exceptions) that you are talking about books that are released exclusively as e-books.
That kind of implies self publishing or very small publishing house with fairly minor sales.
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What Mariella Frostrup said during the introduction to the segment was:
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"Sales of digital books aren't released, and therefore aren't included with print books on best-seller lists"
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I assumed that she was talking about digital books in general, not just self-published books or those from very small publishers. The program talks about (and the Radio 4 page links to) the "
Bestsellers in Kindle Store" page at Amazon. A very quick glance reveals at least one book published by Penguin and one by Macmillan, both of which are available in paper and as audio books.
They never specified whether they were talking specifically about self-published books, but I got the impression that they were talking about e-book sales in general.
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Originally Posted by Rob Lister
Do you know of any exceptions that likely should be on the list?
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Apparently Amazon recently announced that 50 Shades of Grey had sold a million books on Kindle. It's on the list linked to above, but I don't know if it's on other bestseller lists or not.