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Kindle Indie Bestsellers – May 20, 2012

Friendly Staff — Sun, 20 May 2012 19:36:43 +0000

Most popular titles in Kindle Indie Books - a special section of Kindle Store devoted exclusively for books from independent authors and publishers.

You can check the current ranking at any time on this page. For frequent updates of top indie bestsellers, please subscribe to RSS feed.

Top 10 Indie Bestsellers

Top 10 Indie Hot New Releases

Top 10 Indie Best Rated

Other ebook bestseller lists to check:

The New York Times Bestsellers: Ebook Fiction | Ebook Non-fiction
The Wall Street Journal: Bestselling Books Weekly List
USA Today: Top 150 Bestselling Books
Barnes & Noble Nook Store: B&N Top 100 Nook Bestsellers
Kobo Store: Top 50 Daily Bestsellers
Amazon Kindle Bestseller List: Bestsellers | Hot New Releases | Movers & Shakers
Spanish Language Kindle Books: Bestsellers | Hot New Releases | Top Rated
Smashwords: Bestsellers | Most Downloads | Highest Rated

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Top in Kindle Store – week ending May 20, 2012

Friendly Staff — Sun, 20 May 2012 14:28:29 +0000

This Sunday’s charts of currently best-selling ebooks in Kindle Store, in four categories. The lists are updated every hour. For current ranking, go at any time to this self-updating page.

You can get RSS updates of Bestsellers, Hot New Releases, Movers & Shakers. Check also the official page at Kindle Store.

Top 10 Bestsellers

Top 10 Hot New Releases

Top 10 Best Rated

Top 10 Movers & Shakers

Other ebook bestseller lists to check:

The New York Times Bestsellers: Ebook Fiction | Ebook Non-fiction
The Wall Street Journal: Bestselling Books Weekly List
USA Today: Top 150 Bestselling Books
Barnes & Noble Nook Store: B&N Top 100 Nook Bestsellers
Kobo Store: Top 50 Daily Bestsellers
Amazon Kindle Indie Books: Bestsellers | Hot New Releases | Top Rated
Spanish Language Kindle Books: Bestsellers | Hot New Releases | Top Rated
Smashwords: Bestsellers | Most Downloads | Highest Rated

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Kindle Indie Bestsellers – May 13, 2012

Friendly Staff — Sun, 13 May 2012 20:19:00 +0000

Most popular titles in Kindle Indie Books - a special section of Kindle Store devoted exclusively for books from independent authors and publishers.

You can check the current ranking at any time on this page. For frequent updates of top indie bestsellers, please subscribe to RSS feed.

Top 10 Indie Bestsellers

Top 10 Indie Hot New Releases

Top 10 Indie Best Rated

Other ebook bestseller lists to check:

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Top in Kindle Store – week ending May 13, 2012

Friendly Staff — Sun, 13 May 2012 14:16:56 +0000

This Sunday’s charts of currently best-selling ebooks in Kindle Store, in four categories. The lists are updated every hour. For current ranking, go at any time to this self-updating page.

You can get RSS updates of Bestsellers, Hot New Releases, Movers & Shakers. Check also the official page at Kindle Store.

Top 10 Bestsellers

Top 10 Hot New Releases

Top 10 Best Rated

Top 10 Movers & Shakers

Other ebook bestseller lists to check:

The New York Times Bestsellers: Ebook Fiction | Ebook Non-fiction
The Wall Street Journal: Bestselling Books Weekly List
USA Today: Top 150 Bestselling Books
Barnes & Noble Nook Store: B&N Top 100 Nook Bestsellers
Kobo Store: Top 50 Daily Bestsellers
Amazon Kindle Indie Books: Bestsellers | Hot New Releases | Top Rated
Spanish Language Kindle Books: Bestsellers | Hot New Releases | Top Rated
Smashwords: Bestsellers | Most Downloads | Highest Rated

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Top self-published books in Kindle Store – April 2012

Piotr Kowalczyk — Wed, 09 May 2012 13:48:07 +0000

I’m excited to share the April list of bestselling self-published books in Kindle Store. All previous lists are available in this directory.

Past bestsellers are harder and harder to find in Amazon, but if you’re interested in which books were on top of the charts in previous years or months, you can still use this simple trick I shared the other day.

A new part to be included in monthly lists is a table with a year-to-year comparison of the figures. It’s a good way to catch the dynamics of the self-publishing phenomenon.

Overview

Debut novel by Tracey Garvis-Graves is the best self-published Kindle book in April

The number of self-published books in Top 100 is the same as in March – 12. Not much, having in mind, that a year ago it was 27. As I wrote already a few times, the big trend to observe in self-publishing is the increase of prices. The new most-popular price tag is $2.99, instead of last year’s $0.99. In most cases the books deserve their prices, no doubt about it when Top 100 are concerned.

My prediction is, that due to price increase and competition from Amazon imprints (Montlake, Thomas & Mercer) and small independent publishers, as well as a fact that several self-publishers sign contracts these days, the number of books in Top 100, self-published via Kindle Direct Publishing platform, will not cross 20% this year.

The rising star of the self-publishing arena is Tracey Garvis-Graves, the author of the debut novel, On the Island. It was doing very well already a month ago, ranked #20, and being a second-best self-published bestseller, after Andrew E. Kaufman’s psychological thriller The Lion, the Lamb, the Hunted.

On the Island is a contemporary adult romance about English teacher Anna Emerson who is offered a job tutoring T.J. Callahan at his family’s summer rental in the Maldives. The book has received outstanding reviews (already 651) and the average rating is 4.7 out of 5.

Andrea, blogging at the Bookish Babes wrote in a review:

From the moment I opened On the Island, I was held captive. Tracey Garvis-Graves’ words command your attention from the very first sentence and do not let up. The concept of being stranded on a deserted island isn’t a new one. But with the characters she created, the fact that they are two very different people at two very different stages in their lives, how they expanded and evolved… this story becomes truly remarkable.

A couple of days ago Tracey Garvis-Graves shared on her blog a great news: On the Island has been optioned for a feature film by MGM!

Fans of John Locke’s will love his new book, Bad Doctor. The cover may suggest it’s the next part of the Donovan Creed series, but it’s not. Locke introduces the new character, Dr. Gideon Box.

Gideon Box, John Locke’s latest creation, is a dissolute sociopath with one redeeming characteristic: he’s the world’s greatest pediatric surgeon. He’s also an angry, confused, depressive swine with the bedside manner of Charles Manson on crack. In other words, (for fans of Locke’s other series) he’s like Donovan Creed, the contract killer, but without the heart of gold.
–from a review by William Skipper

It will be interesting to see how the $2.99 debut book by Tracey Garvis-Graves will be doing in the charts compared to the new $0.99 title from a self-publishing star and a prolific writer John Locke is.

Andrew E. Kaufman as well as CJ Lyons have placed two books in Top 100. CJ Lyons is back in the chart with two books from a newly released Lucy Guardino FBI series: Snake Skin (Book #1) and Blood Stained (Book #2). New York Times bestselling author Lee Child has called CJ Lyon’s work ”Everything a great thriller should be – action packed, authentic, and intense.”

Get Lucy Guardino FBI thrillers now, they are on sale for a limited time.

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Self-published books in Kindle Top 100: April 2012 – Numbers

Data collected on May 7, 2012, from Kindle Store’s April Bestsellers Archive.

	April 2011	April 2012
Number of self-published books in Top 100:	27	12
Number of self-published books in Top 50:	16	6
Number of self-published books in Top 10:	1	1
Position of a highest ranked self-published book:	6	7
Number of self-published books priced $0.99:	17	5
Share of self-published books priced $0.99:	63%	42%
Average price of a self-published book:	$1.60	$2.16
Price of the most expensive self-published book:	$3.99	$3.99

Self-published books in Kindle Top 100: April 2012 – List

# – place in Top 100.

Title and author	#	Price
On the Island - Tracey Garvis-Graves	7	$2.99
The Lion, the Lamb, the Hunted: A Psychological Thriller - Andrew E. Kaufman	23	$2.99
Bad Doctor - John Locke	27	$0.99
Beautiful Disaster - Jamie McGuire	32	$3.99
Snake Skin - CJ Lyons	37	$0.99
Feral Sins (The Phoenix Pack) - Suzanne Wright	44	$2.99
The Trunk Key (Kindle Single) - Carolyn Nash	52	$1.99
The Marriage Pact - M.J. Pullen	60	$0.99
Blood Stained (Lucy Guardino FBI Thrillers, Book #2) - CJ Lyons	66	$2.99
While the Savage Sleeps - Andrew E. Kaufman	81	$2.99
Accidentally Married to… a Vampire? - Mimi Jean Pamfiloff	83	$0.99
The Girl Who Came Home – A Titanic Novel - Hazel Gaynor	94	$0.99

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Kindle Indie Bestsellers – May 6, 2012

Friendly Staff — Sun, 06 May 2012 20:34:47 +0000

Most popular titles in Kindle Indie Books - a special section of Kindle Store devoted exclusively for books from independent authors and publishers.

You can check the current ranking at any time on this page. For frequent updates of top indie bestsellers, please subscribe to RSS feed.

Top 10 Indie Bestsellers

Top 10 Indie Hot New Releases

Top 10 Indie Best Rated

Other ebook bestseller lists to check:

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Top in Kindle Store – week ending May 6, 2012

Friendly Staff — Sun, 06 May 2012 16:32:33 +0000

This Sunday’s charts of currently best-selling ebooks in Kindle Store, in four categories. The lists are updated every hour. For current ranking, go at any time to this self-updating page.

You can get RSS updates of Bestsellers, Hot New Releases, Movers & Shakers. Check also the official page at Kindle Store.

Top 10 Bestsellers

Top 10 Hot New Releases

Top 10 Best Rated

Top 10 Movers & Shakers

Other ebook bestseller lists to check:

The New York Times Bestsellers: Ebook Fiction | Ebook Non-fiction
The Wall Street Journal: Bestselling Books Weekly List
USA Today: Top 150 Bestselling Books
Barnes & Noble Nook Store: B&N Top 100 Nook Bestsellers
Kobo Store: Top 50 Daily Bestsellers
Amazon Kindle Indie Books: Bestsellers | Hot New Releases | Top Rated
Spanish Language Kindle Books: Bestsellers | Hot New Releases | Top Rated
Smashwords: Bestsellers | Most Downloads | Highest Rated

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Kindle Indie Bestsellers – April 29, 2012

Friendly Staff — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 20:31:01 +0000

Most popular titles in Kindle Indie Books - a special section of Kindle Store devoted exclusively for books from independent authors and publishers.

You can check the current ranking at any time on this page. For frequent updates of top indie bestsellers, please subscribe to RSS feed.

Top 10 Indie Bestsellers

Top 10 Indie Hot New Releases

Top 10 Indie Best Rated

Other ebook bestseller lists to check:

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Top in Kindle Store – week ending April 29, 2012

Friendly Staff — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:30:54 +0000

This Sunday’s charts of currently best-selling ebooks in Kindle Store, in four categories. The lists are updated every hour. For current ranking, go at any time to this self-updating page.

You can get RSS updates of Bestsellers, Hot New Releases, Movers & Shakers. Check also the official page at Kindle Store.

Top 10 Bestsellers

Top 10 Hot New Releases

Top 10 Best Rated

Top 10 Movers & Shakers

Other ebook bestseller lists to check:

The New York Times Bestsellers: Ebook Fiction | Ebook Non-fiction
The Wall Street Journal: Bestselling Books Weekly List
USA Today: Top 150 Bestselling Books
Barnes & Noble Nook Store: B&N Top 100 Nook Bestsellers
Kobo Store: Top 50 Daily Bestsellers
Amazon Kindle Indie Books: Bestsellers | Hot New Releases | Top Rated
Spanish Language Kindle Books: Bestsellers | Hot New Releases | Top Rated
Smashwords: Bestsellers | Most Downloads | Highest Rated

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Kindle Indie Bestsellers – April 22, 2012

Friendly Staff — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 19:12:44 +0000

Most popular titles in Kindle Indie Books - a special section of Kindle Store devoted exclusively for books from independent authors and publishers.

You can check the current ranking at any time on this page. For frequent updates of top indie bestsellers, please subscribe to RSS feed.

Top 10 Indie Bestsellers

Top 10 Indie Hot New Releases

Top 10 Indie Best Rated

Other ebook bestseller lists to check:

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Top in Kindle Store – week ending April 22, 2012

Friendly Staff — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 11:06:34 +0000

This Sunday’s charts of currently best-selling ebooks in Kindle Store, in four categories. The lists are updated every hour. For current ranking, go at any time to this self-updating page.

You can get RSS updates of Bestsellers, Hot New Releases, Movers & Shakers. Check also the official page at Kindle Store.

Top 10 Bestsellers

Top 10 Hot New Releases

Top 10 Best Rated

Top 10 Movers & Shakers

Other ebook bestseller lists to check:

The New York Times Bestsellers: Ebook Fiction | Ebook Non-fiction
The Wall Street Journal: Bestselling Books Weekly List
USA Today: Top 150 Bestselling Books
Barnes & Noble Nook Store: B&N Top 100 Nook Bestsellers
Kobo Store: Top 50 Daily Bestsellers
Amazon Kindle Indie Books: Bestsellers | Hot New Releases | Top Rated
Spanish Language Kindle Books: Bestsellers | Hot New Releases | Top Rated
Smashwords: Bestsellers | Most Downloads | Highest Rated

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Kindle Indie Bestsellers – April 15, 2012

Friendly Staff — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 19:30:39 +0000

Most popular titles in Kindle Indie Books - a special section of Kindle Store devoted exclusively for books from independent authors and publishers.

You can check the current ranking at any time on this page. For frequent updates of top indie bestsellers, please subscribe to RSS feed.

Top 10 Indie Bestsellers

Top 10 Indie Hot New Releases

Top 10 Indie Best Rated

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Top in Kindle Store – week ending April 15, 2012

Friendly Staff — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 09:03:34 +0000

This Sunday’s charts of currently best-selling ebooks in Kindle Store, in four categories. The lists are updated every hour. For current ranking, go at any time to this self-updating page.

You can get RSS updates of Bestsellers, Hot New Releases, Movers & Shakers. Check also the official page at Kindle Store.

Top 10 Bestsellers

Top 10 Hot New Releases

Top 10 Best Rated

Top 10 Movers & Shakers

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Top self-published books in Kindle Store – March 2012

Piotr Kowalczyk — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:30:26 +0000

Welcome to March ’12 edition of the list of top self-published books in Kindle Store. The monthly lists are designed to help you find the next great ebook to read from a self-published author.

One thing to notice, when it comes to availability of data – Amazon makes it harder and harder to find past bestsellers. They recently changed the structure of archives and now you can only see the top 100 bestselling books in a year, up to date. No links to monthly or weekly lists are displayed, like it was before.

However, it is still possible to pick monthly lists, by going to specific web addresses. If you’re interested, I can share a tip how to do it. Just leave me a note in the comments below.

Overview

A psychological thriller by Andrew Kaufman is the best self-published Kindle book in March

There are only 12 self-published books in Top 100 in March. The reason is clear – books from self-publishers are getting more expensive. New titles are given $2.99 price, instead of $0.99, which was the most common price (and actually a kind of a badge of self-published books) last year.

If most of the self-published books were priced $0.99, I’d say the March results are a disaster. But there are only two ninety-nine-cents in the chart. It represents 17% percent of all self-published books in Top 100. Last year, in March, there were 27 self-published books in the list, and as much as 16 were priced $0.99.

The average price is highest since I started preparing monthly lists. It’s $2.68, last March it was $1.62. The difference is over one dollar. I don’t expect the trend to change. But you know what – self-published books deserve their price. $2.99 is a decent cost for a well-written and well-received book, which was published by the author personally. Majority of the price goes to the author. When you pay for the book, just have it in mind – you’ll reward its author, most of all.

The best self-published Kindle book of March 2012 is a psychological thriller by Andrew Kaufman, The Lion, the Lamb, the Hunted. It’s priced $2.99 and I’m sure it would stick to the very top of the list if it were under a dollar.

Andrew Kaufman is an award-winning journalist and author of the bestselling novel While the Savage Sleeps. In his new thriller, the main character, the reporter Patrick Bannister, stumbles across evidence among his dead mother’s belongings, which paints her as a killer.

One of two $0.99 books in the chart is actually a true bargain. J.R. Rain, the author who was on top of Kindle Store several times before, now offers four books from Vampire for Hire gothic series for only $0.99. If you want to pay Kindle Daily Deal price for the entire set, don’t hesitate to get it now.

For those who miss the ninety-nine-cents. Authors, who publish their books via Amazon self-publishing platform, called KDP, can offer their books for free for 5 days, once in three months. Many writers use this opportunity. For instance, Daddy’s Home by A.K. Alexander, was available for free when I was collecting data for the chart, on April 4. The regular price of the book is $2.99.

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Self-published books in Kindle Top 100: March 2012 – Numbers

Data collected on April 4, 2012, from Kindle Store’s March Bestsellers Archive.

Number of self-published books in Top 100:	12
Number of self-published books in Top 50:	3
Number of self-published books in Top 10:	0
Position of a highest ranked self-published book:	15
Number of self-published books priced $0.99:	2
Share of self-published books priced $0.99:	17%
Average price of a self-published book:	$2.68
Price of the most expensive self-published book:	$3.29

Self-published books in Kindle Top 100: March 2012 – List

# – place in Top 100.

Title and Author	#	Price
The Lion, the Lamb, the Hunted: A Psychological Thriller - Andrew E. Kaufman	15	$2.99
On the Island - Tracey Garvis-Graves	20	$2.99
The Sweetest Thing - Barbara Freethy	28	$2.99
Abducted (Lizzy Gardner Series #1) - T.R. Ragan	56	$2.99
Samantha Moon: All Four Novels - J.R. Rain	59	$0.99
Daddy’s Home (A Holly Jennings Thriller) - A.K. Alexander	61	$2.99
Dead Weight (Lizzy Gardner Series #2) - T.R. Ragan	81	$2.99
Borrowed Time - CJ Lyons	82	$2.99
When I Found You - Catherine Ryan Hyde	85	$2.99
A Second Chance - Ellen Wolf	88	$0.99
First to Kill (Nathan McBride Series) - Andrew Peterson	98	$2.99
A Secret Wish (Wish Series #1) - Barbara Freethy	99	$3.29

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Kindle Indie Bestsellers – April 8th, 2012

Friendly Staff — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 08:18:50 +0000

Most popular titles in Kindle Indie Books - a special section of Kindle Store devoted exclusively for books from independent authors and publishers.

You can check the current ranking at any time on this page. For frequent updates of top indie bestsellers, please subscribe to RSS feed.

Top 10 Indie Bestsellers

Top 10 Indie Hot New Releases

Top 10 Indie Best Rated

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Top in Kindle Store – week ending April 8th, 2012

Friendly Staff — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 01:17:07 +0000

This Sunday’s charts of currently best-selling ebooks in Kindle Store, in four categories. The lists are updated every hour. For current ranking, go at any time to this self-updating page.

You can get RSS updates of Bestsellers, Hot New Releases, Movers & Shakers. Check also the official page at Kindle Store.

Top 10 Bestsellers

Top 10 Hot New Releases

Top 10 Best Rated

Top 10 Movers & Shakers

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Kindle Indie Bestsellers – April 1st, 2012

Friendly Staff — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 19:37:48 +0000

Most popular titles in Kindle Indie Books - a special section of Kindle Store devoted exclusively for books from independent authors and publishers.

You can check the current ranking at any time on this page. For frequent updates of top indie bestsellers, please subscribe to RSS feed.

Top 10 Indie Bestsellers

Top 10 Indie Hot New Releases

Top 10 Indie Best Rated

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Top in Kindle Store – week ending April 1st, 2012

Friendly Staff — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 16:35:50 +0000

This Sunday’s charts of currently best-selling ebooks in Kindle Store, in four categories. The lists are updated every hour. For current ranking, go at any time to this self-updating page.

You can get RSS updates of Bestsellers, Hot New Releases, Movers & Shakers. Check also the official page at Kindle Store.

Top 10 Bestsellers

Top 10 Hot New Releases

Top 10 Best Rated

Top 10 Movers & Shakers

Read an ebook. Get one from Kindle Store, Barnes & Noble or Kobo.

Kindle Indie Bestsellers – March 25th, 2012

Friendly Staff — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 20:27:22 +0000

Most popular titles in Kindle Indie Books - a special section of Kindle Store devoted exclusively for books from independent authors and publishers.

You can check the current ranking at any time on this page. For frequent updates of top indie bestsellers, please subscribe to RSS feed.

Top 10 Indie Bestsellers

Top 10 Indie Hot New Releases

Top 10 Indie Best Rated

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Top in Kindle Store – week ending March 25th, 2012

Friendly Staff — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 17:25:14 +0000

This Sunday’s charts of currently best-selling ebooks in Kindle Store, in four categories. The lists are updated every hour. For current ranking, go at any time to this self-updating page.

You can get RSS updates of Bestsellers, Hot New Releases, Movers & Shakers. Check also the official page at Kindle Store.