Amazon’s announced their list of the best-selling ebooks of 2013 — and it’s got a big surprise. Stephen King had two of the top 10 best-selling print books of the year –but neither one of them is among the top twenty best-selling Kindle ebooks. In fact, 13 of the top 20 best-selling print books don’t even appear anywhere on Amazon’s list of the top 100 best-selling Kindle ebooks. It’s like print book buyers are living in an entirely different world!
http://tinyurl.com/AmazonBooks2013
Here’s Amazon’s list of their 20 best-selling print books of 2013
1. Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
(#27 among Kindle best-sellers)
2. Inferno by Dan Brown
(#1 among Kindle best-sellers)
3. Killing Jesus by Martin Dugard
(#40 among Kindle best-sellers)
4. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
(#4 among Kindle best-sellers)
5. Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics by Charles Krauthammer
[Not on Kindle list]
6. The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia by Akira Himekawa
[Not available as a Kindle ebook]
7. Humans of New York by Brandon Stanton
[Not on Kindle List]
8. Joyland (Hard Case Crime) by Stephen King
[Not available as Kindle ebook]
9. Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander by Mark Schlabach
[Not on Kindle list]
10. Doctor Sleep: A Novel by Stephen King
[#22 among Kindle best-sellers]
11. David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell
[Not on Kindle List]
12. The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith
[#3 among Kindle best-sellers]
13. The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic by Mark R. Levin
[Not on Kindle list]
14. The Pioneer Woman Cooks: A Year of Holidays: 140 Step-by-Step Recipes for Simple, Scrumptious Celebrations by Ree Drummond
[Not on Kindle list]
15. Sycamore Row by John Grisham
[#6 among Kindle best-sellers]
16. It’s All Good: Delicious, Easy Recipes That Will Make You Look Good and Feel Great by Gwyneth Paltrow
[Not available as Kindle ebook]
17. The FastDiet: Lose Weight, Stay Healthy, and Live Longer with the Simple Secret of Intermittent Fasting by Michael Mosley
[Not on Kindle list]
18. Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan
[Not on Kindle list]
19. Becoming a Supple Leopard: The Ultimate Guide to Resolving Pain, Preventing Injury, and Optimizing Athletic Performance by Glen Cordoza
[Not available for Kindle]
20. Soul Healing Miracles: Ancient and New Sacred Wisdom, Knowledge, and Practical Techniques for Healing the Spiritual, Mental, Emotional, and Physical Bodies by Zhi Gang Sha
[Not on Kindle list]
Yes, four of the top 20 best-selling print books simply weren’t available as Kindle ebooks. But nine of them were available as Kindle ebooks — and yet still failed to even make it into Amazon’s list of the top 100 Kindle best-sellers for 2013. In some cases there’s other reasonable explanations. (For example, Humans of New York is a coffee table book filled with photographs.) And in some cases, the explanation is even more interesting.
Stephen King made it onto both lists with Dr. Sleep, a fascinating horror novel which lets its readers catch up with the little boy from The Shining. (Danny Torrence is now “a flawed middle-aged man with a tragic past”, according to the book’s description…) But Stephen King had a special place in his heart for his new contribution to the “Hard Case Crime” series of books, according to its page at Amazon. King called his new novel Joyland “One of my favorites,” and said “I also loved the paperbacks I grew up with as a kid, and for that reason, we’re going to hold off on e-publishing this one for the time being. Joyland will be coming out in paperback, and folks who want to read it will have to buy the actual book.”
In fact, it’s not just Stephen King who was enjoying mystery novels in 2013. “Last year’s best seller list was filled with Fifty Shades and contemporary romance,” noted Amazon’s Editorial Director of Books and Kindle. But in a statement announcing this year’s best-sellers, she noted that “in 2013 Mysteries & Thrillers captured readers attention, with 11 of the top 20 books falling in that category!” And she had one more interesting piece of trivia. If you look at Amazon’s top 20 best-sellers, 19 out of the 20 sold more Kindle ebook editions than their printed editions.
The only exception was Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead.
Here’s Amazon’s list of their top 20 best-selling Kindle ebooks.
1 Inferno: A Novel (Robert Langdon) by Dan Brown
[#2 on Print list]
2. The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty
[Not on Print list]
3. The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith
[#12 on print list]
4. And the Mountains Echoed: A Novel by Khaled Hosseini
[#4 on print list]
5. The Hit (Will Robie) by David Baldacci
[#40 on print list]
6. Sycamore Row by John Grisham
[#15 on print list]
7. Entwined with You (A Crossfire Novel) by Sylvia Day
[#24 on print list]
8. Never Go Back: A Jack Reacher Novel by Lee Child
[#38 on print list]
9. The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
[#53 on print list]
10. Alex Cross, Run by James Patterson
[Not on print list]
11. Damaged: The Ferro Family by H.M. Ward
[Not on print list]
12. 12th of Never (Women’s Murder Club) by James Patterson
[#65 on print list]
13. Second Honeymoon by James Patterson
[Not on print list]
14. The Billionaire’s Obsession: The Complete Collection Boxed Set (Mine For Tonight, Mine For Now, Mine Forever, Mine Completely) by J.S. Scott
[Not on print list]
15. Surrender Your Love by J.C. Reed
[Not on print list]
16. The Bet by Rachel Van Dyken
[Not on print list]
17. Whiskey Beach by Nora Roberts ‘
[Not on print list]
18. Six Years by Harlan Coben
[#92 on print list]
19. Falling Into You by Jasinda Wilder
[Not on print list]
20. High Heat: A Jack Reacher Novella by Lee Child
[Not on print list]
For a shortcut to Amazon’s lists, point your browser to
http://tinyurl.com/AmazonBooks2013