Starting today with the figures for August, and monthly from now on, Irish Publishing News will report the Top Ten Bestselling ebooks through Eason’s ebook store.
Obviously this is only one outlet and the figures for ebook sales are in that way somewhat biased. However until we can secure more sales data from other sources, they’ll remain the best we have.
Interestingly they represent a very different top ten then the weekly print top ten (for the lastest see here). Though this list will cover fiction and non-fiction, no fiction title has made the list.
According to Stephen Boylan, Eason Books Purchasing Manager, the best selling non-fiction title is Matt Cooper’s Who Really Run’s Ireland, but it isn’t selling enough to make the top ten.
Boylan also said, ‘Non-fiction (including academic) is a strong seller, but it tends to be spread across a wider range of titles whereas the new titles in fiction have repeated hits.’
And so, courtesy of Easons, the first Irish Top Ten Ebooks:
1) Pieces of my Heart by Sinead Moriarty
2) The Help by Kathryn Stockett
3) The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
4) The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
5) The Radleys by Matt Haig
6) The Passage by Justin Cronin
7) Legend of a Suicide by David Vann
8) The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
9) Champagne Kisses by Amanda Brunker
10) Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
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The concept of best selling ‘Irish’ ebook list does not make sense – ebooks sell on the internet and are thus non-local in their statistics. To ascribe a top ten to sales from a particular outlet reveals no more than that basic piece of data – sales from the Eason portal etc. No one outlet can assume the mantle of sales for a geographical region – think again!
Des, I totally agree that this is incomplete data, in fact i said that above. I also an very clear on the lack of visibility because of ebooks selling through international sites. Until we have a source from all those sites and a way to determine the sale in Ireland through those sites this is as a good substitute as we have. Finally I think it worthwhile looking at what ebooks sell in ireland even if the results we get for that are somewhat less then we’d hope!