This weekly feature tells the backstory of how one e-book became a bestseller, and highlights bestselling titles that are selling more copies in digital than in print.
This week’s featured title: â€Bared to You†by Sylvia Day. It’s #20 on the New York Times e-book bestsellers list this week and
What it’s about: The first in a trilogy, this erotic novel tells the story of a recent college grad, Eva, who meets billionaire businessman Gideon.
How it became a bestseller: Day self-published “Bared to You†on April 3, 2012. The book immediately invited comparisons to “50 Shades of Grey,†the mega-bestselling, originally self-published erotic trilogy that Random House’s Vintage acquired for seven figures in March. Jane Litte, who runs the romance blog “Dear Author,†writes that “if I were to recommend any book today to readers who enjoyed 50 Shades and was looking for another book like it, this would be the first one I would offer. However, Bared to You is far better written with much hotter sex scenes.â€
Like “Fifty Shades of Grey,†“Bared to You†has now found a traditional publisher: Penguin’s Berkley imprint snapped it up this month and has already released the e-book with a new, “50 Shades of Greyâ€-esque cover. (That’s Day’s original cover on the left and Penguin’s cover on the right.) Penguin will release a paperback edition on June 7. (Day writes a bit more about the Penguin acquisition here, and notes that Penguin’s ability to get the paperback into bricks-and-mortar bookstores was one of the main reasons she signed up with them.)
“Bared to You†is $5.99 on … Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Kobo
New York Times bestseller list, week of 6/3/12
Here are the titles in the top-35 that appear on the e-book bestseller list, but not on the print bestseller list (click the link to expand the chart).
USA Today bestseller list, week of 5/24/12
USA Today includes all formats and genres in one list and notes which format of a book sold best. Here are the titles in the top-35 where e-books outsold print (click the link to expand the chart).
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