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Amazon’s bestselling books list for 2011 is out.
The online retailer looks at both print and ebook sales to see which titles measure up for this list.
The top 10 include titles from the big six publishers, as well as two titles from Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing platform: The Mill River Recluse by Darcie Chan and The Abbey by Chris Culver.
Amazon’s Top 10 Bestselling Books for 2011
1. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
2. Bossypants by Tina Fey
3. A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard
4. The Mill River Recluse by Darcie Chan
5. In the Garden of the Beasts by Erik Larson
6. A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin
7. The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
8. The Litigators by John Grisham
9. The Abbey by Chris Culver
10. Inheritance (The Inheritance Cycle) by Christopher Paolini
Excited by the explosion of ebooks, many published authors are rushing to release digital copies of their backlists.
Samhain Publishing just launched a new ebook imprint that can help them with that.
According to GalleyCat, Retro Romance will publish previously out-of-print romance novels from the past 30 years. The line kicked off this week with old/new titles from Sharon DeVita, Kate Donvan, Patricia Hagan, Karen Kay and Debra Mullins.
“For authors who have older titles and want to release them digitally, but don’t care to act as their own cover artist, production assistant, editor, or distributor, Samhain’s Retro Romance line is an ideal solution,” said Samhain editorial director Heather Osborn in a blog posting. “We take on the work of scanning print books into digital files, copy editing, formatting into all of the various digital formats, creating beautiful cover art, advertising and promotion – and supply authors with a robust built-in distribution. It’s a win-win.”