| The New York Times Best Seller List Hard Cover Nonfiction, Sun. Feb. 7th, 2010 | |||||
| # | Book Name and Author | Amazon | B&N | Sony | Kobo |
| 1 | GAME CHANGE | 8.61 2 | 9.99 2 | N/A | N/A |
| by John Heilemann & Mark Halperin | |||||
| 2 | COMMITTED | 9.99 | 9.99 | 11.99 | 9.99 |
| by Elizabeth Gilbert | |||||
| 3 | STONES INTO SCHOOLS | 9.99 | 9.99 | 9.99 | 9.99 |
| by Greg Mortenson | |||||
| 4 | HAVE A LITTLE FAITH | 9.88 | 9.88 | 9.99 | 9.88 |
| by Mitch Albom | |||||
| 5 | GOING ROGUE | 9.99 | 9.99 | 9.99 | 9.99 |
| by Sarah Palin | |||||
| 6 | OUTLIERS | 9.40 | 9.40 | 9.99 | 9.40 |
| by Malcolm Gladwell | |||||
| 7 | JUST KIDS | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| by Patti Smith | |||||
| 8 | THE CHECKLIST MANIFESTO | N/A 3 | 9.99 | 9.99 | 9.99 |
| by Atul Gawande | |||||
| 9 | SUPERFREAKONOMICS | 9.99 | 9.99 | 9.99 | 9.99 |
| by Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner | |||||
| 10 1 | WHAT THE DOG SAW | 9.00 | 9.00 | 9.99 | 9.00 |
| by Malcolm Gladwell | |||||
| 11 | DRIVE | 9.99 | 9.99 | 12.99 | 9.99 |
| by Daniel H. Pink | |||||
| 12 | OPEN | 9.99 | 9.99 | 9.99 | 9.99 |
| by Andrew Agassi | |||||
| 13 | INTELLECTUALS AND SOCIETY | 9.99 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| by Thomas Sowell | |||||
| 14 | EVIDENCE OF THE AFTERLIFE | 9.99 | 9.99 | 13.99 | N/A |
| by Jeffrey Long w/ Paul Perry | |||||
| 15 | TOO BIG TO FAIL | 9.99 | 9.99 | 9.99 | 9.99 |
| by Andrew Ross Sorkin | |||||
| | Total Price: | 126.80 4 | 128.18 4 | 128.88 5 | 108.20 6 |
| | Average Price: | 9.75 | 9.86 | 10.74 | 9.84 |
| | (1) Sales virtually indistinguishable from the title above. | ||||
| | (2) Title available for pre-order. | ||||
| | (3) This title is a Macmillan title and may be withheld due to dispute with Amazon. | ||||
| | (4) Two titles not available for sale. | ||||
| | (5) Three titles not available for sale. | ||||
| | (6) Four titles not available for sale. | ||||
As with the Fiction Best Seller list, a Macmillan book is conspicuously absent from the Amazon ranks. No one bookseller manages to keep the same titles available for purchase which makes the total prices fairly hard to analyze. One thing is for sure, Sony seems hellbent on not playing the $9.99 game at any cost to their bottom line. It's quite astonishing how many unavailable titles (or pre-order titles) are on my reading list. I would probably pay $15 for those titles, and perhaps Apple knows this?
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Thanks for your weekly update on the best sellers list.
ReplyDeleteI wanted to point out that while looking through reviews of the books I noticed that B&N has updated the pre-order price to $8.61 matching Amazons.
I'll be publishing these lists on Sunday, moving forward, rather than Friday or Saturday when the Times releases them. It's still a week in advance, but there's clearly been some movement on Sunday by the various sellers.
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