Publishers Weekly - 09.03.2020

10 PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ■ MARCH 9, 2020

Bestsellers, Too: E-book Boogaloo

This week, we’re looking at the top-selling e-books as ranked by Bookstat, which computes sales of books in various

formats from major online retailers, and comparing those unit sales to print unit sales from BookScan. Most of the 10 best-

selling e-books sold far better in e-book than in print. The exceptions: Erik Larson’s The Splendid and the Vile, which sold 11K

more units in print than in e-book, and American Dirt, whose print sales slightly edged out e-book sales. Other points of

note: three of the top-selling e-books are self-published titles, and another two are from Amazon’s Lake Union imprint.

TOP 10 OVERALL

1 The Splendid and the Vile Erik Larson Crown 49,

2 Blindside Patterson/Born Little, Brown 29,

3 Green Eggs and Ham Dr. Seuss Random House 25,

4 The Mamba Mentality Kobe Bryant MCD 24,

5 One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish Dr. Seuss Random House 22,

6 Fetch-22 (Dog Man #8) Dav Pilkey Graphix 19,

7 The Cat in the Hat Dr. Seuss Random House 19,

8 Unknown Valor Martha MacCallum Harper 17,

9 The Ultimate Retirement Guide for 50+ Suze Orman Hay House 16,

10 Where the Crawdads Sing Delia Owens Putnam 16,

RANK TITLE AUTHOR IMPRINT UNITS

INFORMATION SUPPLIED BY NPD BOOKSCAN. COPYRIGHT © 2020 THE NPD GROUP. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

BY CAROLYN JURIS

Behind the Bestsellers FEB. 22–29, 2020

18,032 17,

16,510 14,806 14,

1,952 (^59747)
(HarperCollins
Leadership)
(Lake Union)
(Lake Union)
(Pamela M. Kelley)
(Ilsa
Madden-Mills)
52,
37,
25,
21,
49,
10,
0
29,
(Little, Brown) (Crown) (Minotaur) (Lauren Landish)
(Flatiron)
Two of Bookstat’s 10 bestselling
e-books, both new releases, were
also BookScan’s top-selling print
books. Erik Larson’s The Splendid
and the Vile, the #1 print book
in the country (and “a propulsive,
character-driven account of Winston
Churchill’s fi rst year as British prime
minister,” per our starred review) was
#2 in e-book unit sales. Blindside by
James Patterson and James O. Born
was #2 in print and #1 in e-book.
E-book unit sales
Print unit sales
New
Release
20,
19,
2015 1,206 0