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The latest edition of fact compendium Guinness World Records was the bestselling book in another slow week for the book trade.
Sales of Guinness World Records 2012 rose 26% week-on-week, to 27,360 copies sold, but overall book sales fell 1.4% to £32.1m, and were down 12% (£4.4m) on the same week last year.
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By: GraemeNeill,
on 10/18/2011
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Terry Pratchett’s Snuff (Doubleday) has become one of the fastest-selling novels since records began, shifting 54,687 copies at UK book retail outlets in its three days on sale last week.
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Crime Writers' Association chair Peter James has scored his first ever Official UK Top 50 number one. The mass-market edition of Dead Man's Grip (Pan), the Brighton-born novelist's seventh Roy Grace thriller, sold 29,640 copies in its first full week in UK bookshops, almost 7,000 more than the second bestselling book of the week, Jamie Oliver's Jamie's Great Britain (Michael Joseph, 22,748 copies sold).
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By: lisacampbell,
on 10/6/2011
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Printed book sales in September rose by 10% on August, but were down 10% on last year, Nielsen BookScan data reveals. In total, £118.4m was spent on physical books in the four weeks to 1st October, an increase of £11m on August, but a decline of £14m on September 2010.
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By: GraemeNeill,
on 8/31/2011
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David Nicholls' One Day (Hodder) has broken the record for the biggest ever weekly sale from an adult-readership novel in the month of August.
Across all print editions, One Day sold 92,336 copies at UK booksellers in the seven days to 27th August, beating the previous record, set by Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol (Corgi) last year, by more than 15,000 copies.
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Julian Barnes' The Sense of an Ending (Cape) is comfortably the bestselling longlistee of one of the most popular Man Booker longlists since records began.
Barnes' concise novel has sold 9,700 copies at UK booksellers since the longlist was announced, almost double the number of the next most popular longlistee, Alan Hollinghurst's The Stranger's Child (Picador).
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By: GraemeNeill,
on 8/16/2011
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Spending on printed books slumped £1.1m last week, as the UK riots caused retailers to shut stores early and the public to avoid the high street.
Although bookshops remained largely unscathed during the rioting, spending slumped by 4% on the previous week, to £26.6m, and was down 9% (£2.6.m) on the same week last year. With digital books continuing to steal sales from traditional booksellers, spending on printed books last week hit a six-year low for the month of August.
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By: lisacampbell,
on 7/28/2011
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Julian Barnes, Sebastian Barry and bookies favourite Alan Hollinghurst are seen by the trade as the Man Booker Prize for Fiction frontrunners after the longlist was revealed on Tuesday (26th July).
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By: GraemeNeill,
on 7/19/2011
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George R R Martin’s A Dance with Dragons sold 28,840 copies in just five days last week, becoming one of the fastest-selling fantasy novels since records began.
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Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Quercus), the first book in the late Swedish journalist's Millennium thriller trilogy, has become only the sixth adult novel to sell more than two million copies since records began.
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By: GraemeNeill,
on 7/5/2011
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Dawn French’s début novel, A Tiny Bit Marvellous (Penguin), retains its position at the summit of The Official UK Top 50 week-on-week, thanks to a promotional appearance on ITV’s “This Morning”, and a “£2.99 if you spend £10” deal at WH Smith.
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John Grisham's The Confession (Arrow) has retained its position at the summit of the Official UK Top 50 despite a 32% drop in sales week-on-week.
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