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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Perhaps if you were a bit more forthright in your points. Obviously Patterson is a traditional published author. Is your point that he uses co-writers/ghost writers? If so, he's hardly the first one. Tom Clancy does too (one could say that he is the ghost writer now. [yes, that is an attempt at humor]) Baen paired recognized authors with less recognized authors all the time. Heck, the practice goes all the way back to the 1800's.
As far as indies in the top 100 list, well when I look at Amazon's best sellers of 2014 for Kindle eBook ( https://www.amazon.com/gp/bestseller...text/154606011)
it lists
#9 If I Stay - Gayle Forman
#17 - Sycamore Row - John Grisham
#21 - Top Secret: Twenty-One - Janet Evanovich
#26 - The Book Thief - Markus Zusak
#81 - The Martian - Andy Weir
Neither Hugh Howey nor John Scalzi made the list. Howey was the one I explicitly scanned for since he is apparently one of the top selling indies.
Yes, certain people's blindness isn't a surprise at all. Sometimes it's useful to double check assertions, you know. |
You know if I want to know who is on top, I don't want old figures I prefer up to date.
I was looking at authors not books.
Most authors have more than one book that can and are still bought. To me author rank means more than what one book is doing.
Heck, Grey by EL James was number 1 a couple of weeks ago. The publisher had marked down the ebook to 99 cents.
I would bet money that I know what one of the best sellers will be the week of September 1.
I would also bet that it makes the NYT list.
So now do you want to talk authors or individual books?