Jordan/Sanderson and Charlaine Harris drop off the top 5 this week to make room for A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness and a second novel by J.R. Rain: Vampire Moon.
by Deborah Harkness
by Karen Marie Moning
by J.R. RainA Game of Thrones drops off the top five, but Towers of Midnight in Kindle form and Charlaine Harris’ newest Sookie Stackhouse make first appearances this week.
by Karen Marie Moning
Moon Dance and Fire Burn swap places, but the top 5 remains the same from last week. George R.R. Martin going strong!
by Karen Marie Moning
Shadowfever jumps into first place with its Kindle edition, and A Game of Thrones holds strong leading into the launch of the HBO series in a few months.
by Karen Marie MoningFire Burn and Cauldron Bubble and A Game of Thrones hold the first and second slots, respectively, and a few authors that spent time in the top 5 in 2010 make a return in J.R. Rain and Karen Marie Moning.
Its an epic/urban slugfest to kick off 2011, with two novels each by H.P. Mallory and George R.R. Martin making the top 5. In a hilarious contrast, we have novels from one of the best epic fantasy series in recent history sharing the top 5 with what has to be one of the cheesiest urban fantasy series ever, stealing its titles from Shakespeare. I’m really not sure which takes the cake: a novel titled “Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble, A Paranormal Romance”, or “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter”, which we saw in the top 5 in 2010. Ricidulous. Anyway, definitely worth noting is the fact that all 5 novels in the top 5 this week are Kindle editions. Will we say goodbye brick and mortar stores in 2011?
Towers of Midnight gets knocked completely out of the top 5, in perhaps the most significant shift in recent months: all books in Amazon’s top 5 are Kindle editions, for the first time I’ve ever seen it happen. Replacing hardcover editions of popular current novels like Towers of Midnight and World War Z are Kindle versions in some instances of the same books (World War Z), and in others Kindle editions of classics (The Lord of the Rings). Also, The Hobbit was just outside the top 5, coming in at number 6, also a Kindle edition.
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