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I Am America (And So Can You!) makes best seller lists.
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Add best selling author to Stephen Colbert’s resume. I’m no expert on this best seller lists, but I’m learning about them as they come out this week. Here’s the latest lists, as of today at 4:30 pm EST.
- Powell’s Books: #2
- Wall Street Journal Best Sellers: #2 in Non-Fiction
- The USA Today Best Selling Books: #3
- Amazon.com:
- #4 in books
- #1 in Books > Nonfiction > Politics
- #1 in Books > Entertainment > Humor > Essays
- #1 in Books > Entertainment > Humor > Political
And he’s doing ok in the Great White North, as well!
- He’s #3 in Non-Fiction at Amazon.ca
- He enters at #8 in Non-Fiction on Maclean’s Best Seller list.
If anyone has any insight into the New York Times Best Sellers List and when we should expect to see IAA(ASCY!) appear (as it is destined to do), please leave a comment.
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October 18th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
Why do I have a sneaky feeling that Jessica Seinfeld is going to be a guest on the show in the near future? :)
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October 18th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
#4 in all books on Amazon! That very impressive,
I bet Hatchett is very happy.
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October 18th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
#507 on Amazon.co.uk… which isn’t that bad, when you think about it :)
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October 18th, 2007 at 5:53 pm
NYT list lags by a couple weeks, like 2-3. Lists released Saturday for Sunday Book Review, so likely a week and a half.
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October 18th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
@TracyUK – Not bad for an import. He’ll be up there when the UK edition is released!
@Middie: thanks for the info. I couldn’t figure out how he would be on so many lists and completely missing from NYT. (Not to mention Ann C’s dropping towards oblivion on all the rest and remaining on theirs?)
So, NYT requires some patience at first, but once the big sales are over you can see the name up there for a few more weeks.
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October 19th, 2007 at 4:53 am
This is NOT good enough. How can Colbert be beaten by a rip off of “the Sneaky Chef?!” Most of those recipes taste horrible!
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October 19th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
I AM AMERICA debuts at #1 on the NYT bestseller list the week of Oct. 28 in the nonfiction hardcover category. The Oct. 28 list reflects sales the week I AM AMERICA first went on sale. Tricky stuff, the NYT bestseller list, but essentially, in the first week I AM AMERICA was on sale (and the NYT week runs Saturday to Sunday, with the book going on sale Tuesday) it was the bestselling nonfiction hardcover book among the titles the NYT is *tracking* according the *reporting* stores/sources. Hope that makes sense.
Other, perhaps more accurate sources to get book data: Booksense bestseller lists, Nielsen Bookscan numbers (don’t know how you’d get access to those, but might as well try, right?)…
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