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Harry tops year's bestsellers

Books by Australian authors have taken five of the top 10 spots in the financial year's bestsellers, according to Nielsen BookScan.

Published 7 August, 2008

HP7 Biggest Single Selling Book Ever-Spotlight

Books by Australian authors have taken five of the top 10 spots in the financial year's bestsellers, according to Nielsen BookScan.

Nielsen BookScan has provided WBN with figures that show books sale growth in Australia from July 07 to June 08 has increased by 7.5% overall in volume, and 7.6% in value. Excluding all sales of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows the figures still stand at 5.2% increase in volume, and 4.2% increase in value.

The top 10 selling books were:

  1. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (J K Rowling, Bloomsbury)
  2. 4 Ingredients (Kim McKosker & Rachael Bermingham, 4 Ingredients)
  3. The Persimmon Tree (Bryce Courtenay, Viking)
  4. Guinness World Records 2008 (Guinness World Records)
  5. A Thousand Splendid Suns (Khaled Hosseini, Bloomsbury)
  6. The Six Sacred Stones (Matthew Reilly, Macmillan)
  7. Underbelly: The Gangland War (John Silvester & Andrew Rule, Floradale Press)
  8. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Adult Edition) (J K Rowling, Bloomsbury)
  9. Those Faraday Girls (Monica McInerney, Viking)
  10. The Dangerous Book for Boys (Australian Edition) (Conn Iggulden & Hal Iggulden, HarperCollins).

http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au/articles/2008/08/09073/

This article from Thorpe Bowker's Weekly Book Newsletter and Media Extra is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2008, Thorpe-Bowker

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