Best Sellers: Legends of Immortality

by Jerrold R. Jenkins

What makes a book a bestseller? What separates The Celestine Prophecy, What to Expect When You're Expecting, and How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive from the rest of the pack? In Inside the Bestsellers,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0964940116
• ISBN13: 9780964940116
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Rhodes and Easton
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

Best Sellers are Made not Born

This is a delightful and encouraging book. The stories prove that making it to the top of the charts has little to do with luck and a lot to do with tenacity, determination and work. Jenkins and Link reveal the stories behind the headlines of 18 best-selling books. (And 80% of these best-selling books were originally self-published.) This book will edify and delight every author, publisher, book promoter and bookseller. DanPoynter@ParaPublishing.com

Feeling good about free enterprise, and freedom of the press

This book presents the stories behind 18 self-published and small press best-sellers. The foreword is by Richard Paul Evans, author of the legendary Christmas Box. That self-published fiction book made it onto The New York Times Best-Seller List in 1994: a landmark first in the book business! All of the stories are fascinating and encouraging to self-publishers and the small press industry. Most of these success stories are about the author's first book. With many rejections from major publishing houses, the authors began to take total control. That is investing their own money, usually starting with a few thousand books. For some with best-seller status, major publishers got involved. One paid a reported $4.2 million for the rights to The Christmas Box and its prequel. Some $1.7 million was paid for Mutant Message Down Under by Morgan. Paperback rights for Embraced by the Light by Eadie, cost Bantam $1.5 million. Rights to The Celestine Prophecy by Redfield, sold for just $800,000, after th