Crossword clues for bestseller
bestseller
- Birdsong, perhaps, in worst dungeon, by the sound of it?
- Top salesman, hardly needed to shift this?
- Chart topper
- Part of a certain USA Today list
- It's hot
- Five-star auctioneer?
- Commercial success
- Any John Grisham novel
- Standout work
- Publisher's goal
- Literary chart-topper
- #1 on a list, maybe
- "The Da Vinci Code," for one
Wiktionary
alt. A book or other product that has sold in large numbers. n. A book or other product that has sold in large numbers.
Wikipedia
A bestseller is a book that is included on a list of top-selling or frequently-borrowed titles, normally based on publishing industry and book trade figures and library circulation statistics; such lists may be published by newspapers, magazines, or book store chains. Some lists are broken down into classifications and specialties (number one best selling new novel, nonfiction book, cookbook, etc.). An author may also be referred to as a bestseller if their work often appears in this category. Well-known Best Seller lists are published by Publishers Weekly, USA Today, New York Times and the Washington Post Are some of the best-known bestseller lists for the US. This list tracks national and independent book stores, as well as sales from major Internet retailers such as Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.
In everyday use, the term bestseller is not usually associated with a specified level of sales, and may be used very loosely indeed in publishers' publicity. Books of superior academic value or literary merit tend not to be bestsellers, although there are exceptions. Lists simply give the highest-selling titles in the category over the stated period. Some books have sold many more copies than current "bestsellers", but over a long period of time.
Blockbusters for films and chart-toppers in recorded music are similar terms, although, in film and music, these measures generally are related to industry sales figures for attendance, requests, broadcast plays, or units sold.
Particularly in the case of novels, a large budget and a chain of literary agents, editors, publishers, reviewers, retailers, librarians, and marketing efforts are involved in "making" bestsellers, that is, trying to increase sales.
Steinberg defined a bestseller as a book for which demand, within a short time of that book's initial publication, vastly exceeds what is then considered to be big sales.
A bestseller is a book which has been identified as extremely popular.
Bestseller or Best Seller may also refer to:
- Bestseller (company), a Danish clothing company with brands such as Vero Moda, Jack & Jones and Exit
- Bestseller (music), a song or album charted on a bestseller's list such as Billboard's
- Best Seller (short story), a short story by the writer P. G. Wodehouse
- Best Seller, a 1987 film directed by John Flynn
- Best Sellers (aka: NBC Best Sellers), a serial NBC mini-series from the 1976-1977 television season
Bestseller A/S is a privately held family-owned clothing company based in Denmark. The company was founded in 1975 and has 11 brands.
Bestseller is a 2010 South Korean mystery thriller film written and directed by Lee Jeong-ho.
Usage examples of "bestseller".
Thirty-one-year-old Shand was hailed as one of the new stars of British crime fiction when his first novel, Copycat, shot to the top of the bestseller lists on both sides of the Atlantic and won the John Creasey Memorial Dagger and the Mcvitie prize.
TV, and that had guaranteed her a slot in the bestseller lists ever since.
Psychopaths Jane Elias leapt to the top of the bestseller lists on both sides of the Atlantic seven years ago with her first novel, Death on Arrival, which introduced forensic psychologist Dr.
And so John Patrick Regan is behind bars tonight, accused of a crime that has shocked the bestseller buyers of Middle America.
He was overawed to find himself on the same platform as Georgia, already a bestseller, and another writer whose books had leapt to prominence on the back of a particularly classy TV adaptation.
Deep Waters, her last triumphant New York N Times bestseller, brimmed with excitement, great characters, and sheer storytelling genius.
Her successes include Seasons, Sunsets, Bewitched, The Gift, the New York Times bestseller Once in a Lifetime, and her previous novels for Avon Books, Anywhere You Are and Once and Forever.
This is probably why such books as Ada, by Vladimir Nabokov, have never appeared on the USA Today bestseller list, although it sells more than nine million copies a year.
We Were the Mulvaneys sold forty million copies in hardcover and an additional eighty million copies in paperback, surpassing sales of her previous bestseller, Them, by almost thirty million copies.
His memoir, Education of a Wandering Man, was a leading bestseller in 1989.
In 1839, when Roderick Murchison published The Silurian System, a plump and ponderous study of a type of rock called greywacke, it was an instant bestseller, racing through four editions, even though it cost eight guineas a copy and was, in true Huttonian style, unreadable.
After a short stroll in the park and an early movierated R for raunchy, some godawful rendition of a worse bestseller, that bound itself somehow in Dan's mind with his real-life situation, so that he kept half-expecting the crab-machine to appear on screenhe bought Wanda burgers and beer at one of the classier drive-ins, after which they moved on to what the newspapers called a swinging singles bar.
Her masterful novels of romantic suspense include, Silverhill, Columbella, national bestsellers and bookclub selections which were preceded by the bestselling Sea Jade, Black Amber, Seven Tears for Apollo, and many others.
And while I was at it, I wanted to squelch all her flashy little brainchildren-those bestsellers which had multiplied with jack-rabbit alacrity into paperback deals .
Both books feature Stone Barrington, the handsome, sophisticated attorney/investigator, and are New York Times bestsellers.