megaseller

This week I checked into the Freakonomics blog on the New York Times site for the first time in a while and saw that Venkatesh, who first came to popular notice when his work on the (lousy) economics of crack dealing was featured in that megaseller, has been guest-blogging about watching the fifth and final season with some self-described "real thugs" of his acquaintance.

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So why keep a spot for an author whose books aren't making the cash registers ring when the next "new" author could be a megaseller?

Archive 2009-02-01 Casey 2009

So why keep a spot for an author whose books aren't making the cash registers ring when the next "new" author could be a megaseller?

Ahh, The Writing Life!! Shirley Damsgaard 2009

His direct ancestor is the legendary warlord Ieyasu Tokugawa, who established a dynasty that shut Japan off from the world for 250 years (you may remember him portrayed as the victorious Toranaga in James Clavell's megaseller "Shogun").

The Big Bang Or A Big Bust? 2008

For every Da Vinci Code, which was turned into a megaseller through clever marketing, there are ten, or fifteen, or a hundred for which a lot of marketing dollars were spent only to produce disappointing sales.

Publishing . . . Huh? Walter Jon Williams 2008

For every Da Vinci Code, which was turned into a megaseller through clever marketing, there are ten, or fifteen, or a hundred for which a lot of marketing dollars were spent only to produce disappointing sales.

Archive 2008-05-01 Walter Jon Williams 2008

In a March memo to Random House employees, Mr. Olson noted that the publishing house "felt the absence of newly published megaseller hardcovers, which in today's trade publishing business can mean the difference between a good fiscal year and a great one."

Random House CEO to Step Down 2008

Publishers seem to prefer to have one megaseller that saves them from 10 bad investments instead of 10 modest-sellers and 1 bad invesement that doesn't hurt that much.

Archive 2005-07-01 2005

Publishers seem to prefer to have one megaseller that saves them from 10 bad investments instead of 10 modest-sellers and 1 bad invesement that doesn't hurt that much.

Writing Life 2: "Long Tails" 2005

You remember Covey from his megaseller, "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People," which has helped millions organize their lives and their thinking.

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