Bestselling Ebooks of 2012 – Publisher’s Weekly

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/56408-the-e-book-explosion-facts-figures-2012.html

 

15 Million+ for All Three

*Fifty Shades of Grey: Book One. E.L. James. Vintage

*Fifty Shades Darker: Book Two. E.L. James. Vintage

*Fifty Shades Freed: Book Three. E.L. James. Vintage

 

Ugh.  The only thing I will say about this trilogy is that it inspired me to self-publish. If tripe like that can be successful, I should be able to take over the world.

 

50,000+

*Kiss the Dead. Laurell Hamilton. Berkley

*Dead Until Dark. Charlaine Harris. Ace

The Ugly Duchess. Eloisa James. Avon (59,333)

*The Signal and the Noise. Nate Silver. Penguin Press

Sizzling Seventeen. Janet Evanovich. St. Martin’s Press (59,156)

*The Lost Wife. Alyson Richman. Berkley

 

Jumping to the near end with 50k, I can say I’ve not read or really even heard of any of those authors.  But props to them.  Then of course we have the bottom of the bucket.

 

900+

Blood Memory:  Book 1 by Rosalind Hartmann

 

It’s a process, ladies and gentlemen.  A long, arduous process, but it’s been fun.