Digital-only title from small press makes NYT/USA Today bestseller lists

Selah March · Feb 10, 2011

Maya Banks' Colter's Daughter (erotic romance, Samhain Publishing) has made the NYT/USA Today bestseller lists for the upcoming week. (I'm assuming the NYT list in question is their new ebook bestseller list. Not sure about the USA Today list.)

Link to announcement on Banks' blog.

Currently this title is available in digital format only. I believe (please correct me if I'm wrong) that this is the first digital-only release from a small (relative to the big guns of NY publishing) epublisher to make these lists.

artemis31386 · Feb 10, 2011

I am very glad that NYT is finally seeing that Ebooks are a valid medium. I'm also glad that a bigger epub like Samhain is on the list.

Ineti · Feb 10, 2011

I think Amanda Hocking's ebook only trilogy is on this week's USA Today bestseller list, or will be.

Sheryl Nantus · Feb 10, 2011

Selah March said:
Currently this title is available in digital format only. I believe (please correct me if I'm wrong) that this is the first digital-only release from a small (relative to the big guns of NY publishing) epublisher to make these lists.

I think so.

If you haven't read any of the Colter's Legacy series, you're missing out on some great reading - Maya Banks knocks it out of the park with these books!

And, darn it, good to see Samhain kicking butt in the big leagues.

izanobu · Feb 10, 2011

Technically, Hocking's books are available in print as well as e-books, so they don't count if we're going by those metrics.

Selah March · Mar 24, 2011

A second Samhain title, Flashpoint by Shelli Stevens, has hit #32 on the extended NYT bestselling ebook list.

Why is this worth mentioning? Because Samhain Publishing is a small, digital-first publisher that's been in operation for a little over five years. Their ability to put two titles on national bestseller lists in six weeks' time shows the playing field is leveling out quickly, IMO.

Digital-only title from small press makes NYT/USA Today bestseller lists

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