- Locus April 2013 (#627), Terry Bisson, Libba Bray, Ken Liu, Caniglia.
- Clarkesworld Magazine – Issue 79, Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Kali Wallce, Emily C. Skaftun, Kij Johnson, Robert Reed, and David Moles; Ken Liu, Myke Cole, Daniel Abraham, and Neil Clarke.
- Lightspeed Magazine Issue 35, John Joseph Adams, Desirina Boskovich, Hugh Howey, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Robert Silverberg, Anaea Lay, Karin Tidbeck, Bruce Sterling, Christopher Barzak, Jane Yolen, Brandon Sanderson, Nina Allan, and Linda Nagata.
- New York Review of Science Fiction #295
- Nightmare Magazine Issue 7, Marc Laidlaw, Weston Ochse, Elizabeth Hand, Angela Slatter, Sarah Langan.
- Clarkesworld Magazine
- Galaxy’s Edge Magazine
- Lightspeed Magazine
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies
- New York Review of Science Fiction
- Ginn Hale et al, Irregulars
- Conservation of Shadows, Yoon Ha Lee
- The Human Front, Ken MacLeod
- One Saved to the Sea, Catt Kingsgrave
- A Stranger in Olondria, Sofia Samatar
At the Mouth of the River of Bees, Kij Johnson - Galaxy’s Edge Magazine
- Clarkesworld Magazine
- Lightspeed Magazine
- New York Review of Science Fiction
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies
- Lord of the White Hell Book One & Book Two
- Ginn Hale et al, Irregulars
- Trafalgar by Angelica Gorodischer
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 28 - Lightspeed Magazine Issue 34, John Joseph Adams et al.
- Women and Monsters by J. M. McDermott
The H. Beam Piper Megapack - Galaxy’s Edge Magazine Annual Subscription
- Clarkesworld Magazine: 12-Month Subscription
- Lightspeed Magazine: 12-Month Subscription
- Irregulars
- New York Review of Science Fiction 12-issue Subscription
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies 12-Month Subscription
- Lord of the White Hell Book Two
- Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 28
- Apex Magazine: 12-Month Subscription
- Lord of the White Hell Book One
- Clarkesworld Magazine
- New York Review of Science Fiction
- Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Lightspeed Magazine
Ginn Hale et al, Irregulars
Locus #625, Feb. 2013
Ginn Hale, The Rifter Subscription - New York Review of Science Fiction #293
Lightspeed Magazine Issue 33
Clarkesworld: Year Three - Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 28
- Clarkesworld Magazine: 12-Month Subscription
- The Rifter Subscription
- Lightspeed Magazine: 12-Month Subscription
- The Ware Tetralogy
- New York Review of Science Fiction #275
- Lightspeed Magazine Issue 19
- Stories of Your Life and Others
- The Paul Goodman Reader
- Rifter 10: His Holy Bones
- The Apex Book of World SF
- Fireside Magazine
- The Rifter
- Lightspeed Magazine
- Clarkesworld Magazine
- Apex Magazine
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Point of Hopes: A Novel of Astreiant, Melissa Scott et al.
- After the Fall . . . , Nancy Kress
Redwood and Wildfire, Andrea Hairston
Fairy Tale Review Special Kate Bernheimer - The Archer’s Heart, Astrid Amara
Fountain of Age, Nancy Kress - A Working Writer’s Daily Planner 2012 Almanac Edition
- After the Apocalypse, Maureen F. McHugh
At the Mouth of the River of Bees Preorder, Kij Johnson
Locus May (must be because of the Twin Spica #12 review, no?) - The Rifter (Installments 1-10)
- Irregulars
- Lord of the White Hell (Book 1 + 2)
- Wicked Gentlemen
- Feral Machines
- Ginn Hale, Josh Lanyon, Astrid Amara, Nicole Kimberling, Irregulars
- Kickstarter prodigy, Fireside Magazine
- Melissa Scott, Lisa A. Barnett, Point of Hopes: A Novel of Astreiant
- Nancy Kress, Fountain of Age: Stories
- Lightspeed Magazine subscription
- Delia Sherman, The Freedom Maze
- Maureen F. McHugh, After the Apocalypse
- Ginn Hale, Wicked Gentlemen
- Karen Lord, Redemption in Indigo
- Karen Joy Fowler, What I Didn’t See and Other Stories/ Angelica Gorodischer, Kalpa Imperial / Kelley Eskridge, Solitaire
- The Rifter, Ginn Hale
- Lightspeed Magazine
- Lightspeed and Fantasy Magazines: 12-Month Subscription
- Fantasy Magazine
- Apex Magazine
- Lord of the White Hell Book One and Two, Ginn Hale
- The Archer’s Heart, Astrid Amara
- Secret Lives, Jeff VanderMeer
Wicked Gentlemen, Ginn Hale, 14 - Turnskin, Nicole Kimberling
Moonlight is Bulletproof, Alan DeNiro - The Rifter Subscription & installments, Ginn Hale
- Lord of the White Hell Book One and Book Two, Ginn Hale
- Wicked Gentlemen, Ginn Hale
- Feral Machines, Ginn Hale
- The Rifter Subscription & The Rifter 1: The Shattered Gates, Ginn Hale
- Lord of the White Hell Book One and Book Two, Ginn Hale
- Fantasy Magazine 12-Month Subscription
- Lightspeed Magazine Annual Ebook Subscription
- Apex Magazine 12-Month Subscription
Wicked Gentlemen, Ginn Hale - Lord of the White Hell Book Two, Ginn Hale
- Lord of the White Hell Book One, Ginn Hale
- The Rifter Subscription, Ginn Hale
- Wicked Gentlemen, Ginn Hale
- Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet Subscription
- Lord of the White Hell Book One, Ginn Hale
- Lightspeed Magazine Annual Ebook Subscription
- Wicked Gentlemen, Ginn Hale
- A Working Writer’s Daily Planner 2011
- Solitaire, Kelley Eskridge
- Lord of the White Hell Book One, Ginn Hale
- Wicked Gentlemen, Ginn Hale
- Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet Subscription
- Feral Machines , Ginn Hale
- A Working Writer’s Daily Planner 2011
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet No. 26 - Wicked Gentlemen, Ginn Hale
- The Archer’s Heart, Astrid Amara
- Lord of the White Hell Book One, Ginn Hale
- Feral Machines , Ginn Hale
- Turnskin, Nicole Kimberling
- Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet Subscription
- Two Tangled Tales, Astrid Amara
- Redemption in Indigo, Karen Lord
- A Working Writer’s Daily Planner 2011
- Fairy Tale Review Special
April 2013 Bestsellers
Tags: BestsellersApril was busy! I decided to add a magazine list this month, since there is a bit of difference between the subscriptions and the individual issues. The book list is interesting, too, as it’s quite different from the March 2013 Bestsellers.
Magazines
Subscriptions
Books
March 2013 Bestsellers
Tags: Bestsellers, Galaxy's Edge, Ginn Hale
New magazine Galaxy’s Edge took the top spot in March. Can’t tell yet if it’s a serious challenger to the juggernauts of Clarkesworld and Lightspeed. Mostly it was a month of everything sells a couple of copies with nothing quite pulling a Harry Potter and being miles ahead of everything else although Ginn Hale is always popular—maybe being a DABWAHA finalist helped?
Interesting to see one of the megabucks (this one from H. Beam Piper) sneaking onto the chart along with J. M. McDermott’s Women and Monsters.
This bestseller list brought to you by actual ebooks sold to actual readers all around this big old world of ours.
Subscriptions
Books
Want to build a new Goodreads?
Tags: Bestsellers, Goodreads
Hey, it’s the last day of the quarter! Royalties go out to all your fave authors next week. Thank YOU! Last month’s (automated) bestseller list is below. I’ll post another later in the week.
Also, tomorrow is April 1st and we promise not to announce that we have been eaten by Am*zon. On that note, we will be removing the Goodreads reviews, which is a shame as we had been very pleased to be able to add them. As many readers are, Michael and I are debating deleting our Goodreads accounts. (Me, Michael.) How about you? I don’t have much time for Amazon and their EatEveryone school of business. I know that they are successful, but having been on the other end of the negotiating table from them as a publisher at Small Beer Press, I don’t like the way they do business. They focus on grinding everyone else down, whereas my philosophy is more along the lines of we can all rise together.
So like many other people, we’re throwing around the idea of building a new community reading site with books, reviews, comments, forums, all the things we liked about Goodreads, but without the all-encompassing Univac behind it. To keep it independent I figure we should make it a $4.99 annual subscription built along the lines Flickr uses: you could add up to 500 books for free then the oldest ones would disappear (from public view, not to you) unless you subscribed. Maybe there could be other subscriber only features, not sure, the site would do best if people use it for a while for free. If you’re seriously interested in kicking this idea around, email me!
March automated bestseller list:
February 2013 Bestsellers
Tags: BestsellersHere are the bestsellers for February 2013. Clarkesworld is still a bit of a juggernaut but the New York Review of Science Fiction looks set to give it a run for the top. And not ever forgetting that mainstay of our bestseller charts, the much loved Ginn Hale:
Weekly Bestsellers
Tags: BestsellersMichael (with Neil Clarke’s help) has put a widget up in the menus where you can see the Weekly Bestsellers at any time. Here’s what’s selling this week:
Royalties paid!
Tags: Bestsellers, Ginn Hale, Lightspeed
One of the best parts of this ebook thing is how fast we get to pay publishers and authors. This morning we sent out payments for sales from April to June 2012: thank you readers! I was going to do it on Friday, but I’ve learned it’s always better if Michael checks the math. (Maths, if you are reading this in the Commonwealth. Also: hello!)
Since I was looking at numbers, here are a few bestseller lists for the quarter. Popular Kickstarter mag, Fireside jumped into the lead in subscriptions, even getting ahead of the perennially popular Lightspeed. And I’ve brought back the Ginn Hale bestseller list because she is a powerhouse!
Next weekend Michael and I will be at Readercon this weekend and then I am going to Seattle for Clarion West (more info here) so updates may be more infrequent. (Is that possible??)
Also: don’t forget the Reader Poll 2: With Different Prizes. Don’t miss the bonus question: and feel free to contact us or other publishers if you’d like their books added to the site.
Happy days!
Subscriptions Bestsellers
Single Title Bestsellers
Ginn Hale Bestsellers
DRM? Pah! Plus: Shimmer, Locus, Apex, LS, & much more
Tags: Apex Magazine, Bestsellers, DRM-free—yay!, Locus, Shimmer Magazine, Something Wicked
DRM-free ebooks are in the air (as it were) with MacMillan announcing that all Tor books will be DRM-free by July of this year. We’ve always thought that DRM-free ebooks are the only way to go as they’re the most reader friendly so we’re super happy to see Tor make this great choice. Yay! Well done to everyone involved! We’ll talk to Tor and see if we can get their titles up here once they’re available.
New this month to Weightless is Shimmer magazine. We have their current issue, #14, available in (yes, DRM-free, ok, ok, I’ll stop) pdf, epub, and mobi, and will be adding pdfs of back issues in coming months. (Ping us if you have a fave issue you’d liked added and we’ll see if we can get those sooner.) I’ve always enjoyed the physical Shimmer—it’s well designed and feels great in the hand—and am looking forward to seeing how it translates into an ebook.
We just posted the May issues of Locus (interviews with Seanan McGuire and Nick Mamatas, reviews galore), Apex (fiction by Rachel Swirsky, Nnedi Okorafor, et al), and Lightspeed (fiction from Linda Nagata, C. C. Finlay, Nicola Griffith, Catherynne M. Valente, Kage Baker et al, excerpts from new novels by Paolo Bacigalupi and Kim Stanley Robinson, as well as interviews with Vernor Vinge and Michael Chabon). New issues from Clarkesworld and Beneath Ceaseless Skies will also go up in the next couple of days.
I was talking to a friend who publishes a quarterly magazine recently—naming no names in case it doesn’t work out—and it looks like we may have a nice announcement about that in the works. We’re always happy to add new magazines and indie publishers. We hope to add NYRSF soon.
Elsewhere on the site, Wildside are selling a lot of those megapacks and Aqueduct have promised us more ebooks very soon—although like many people we know they are busy, busy with WisCon prep. So sorry we won’t be there this year. Hope to get back soon. We will have a table (courtesy of David J. Schwartz) and will co-sponsor the Genderfloomp dance.
Since we’re now well into the second quarter of the year, we dropped the price of A Working Writer’s Daily Planner from $3.99 to $2.99 and the Almanac edition from $4.99 to $3.99.
April Bestsellers
In sadder news, we’re sorry to say Something Wicked announced they are officially stopping their monthly publication schedule. We refunded all subscribers and are happy to point readers to their website where they will continue to post individual stories, reviews, and interviews. Back issues are available here—and with luck more back issues will be added as spring goes on. It was a brave run and we wish Joe and Vianne the best of luck with future projects.
These continue to be interesting times in ebook land with Microsoft and bn.com teaming up together, Google giving everyone the boot (boo), Tor going DRM-free and so on. Weightless exists so that indie publishers and readers could find one another. Thanks for reading, for supporting indie publishing, and for spreading the word, it’s much appreciated! We’re always happy to hear from readers and encourage reviews and comments.
That’s it. Happy May Day!
Infinity Plus Singles, e-Locus Is a Hit
Tags: Bestsellers, Locus
This week we have ten new short story singles from UK publisher Infinity Plus, all at the low low price of 99 cents! These are part of a numbered series, including some brand new stories and some classics. Hopefully we’ll have more of them in the not-too-distant future.
Meanwhile, electronic issues of Locus, the Magazine of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Field have been selling like gangbusters since we added them last week. Just seven days and they’re already our bestseller for the month (!), thanks in no small part, no doubt, to a boingboinging.
In other news, Gavin is away in Oz for the next month, which leaves me, Michael, to do things like add new titles and write updates.
Which allows me to share with you the following (hopefully) helpful troubleshooting hint: Locus ebook files are big, upwards of 15 megabytes, due to the array of wonderful color photos and book ads which are part of what make each issue great. Unfortunately this is a little too big for some email servers to handle, including ours. This means the best way to get them onto your ereader is by downloading the files to your computer and loading them via a cable rather than trying to send them wirelessly.
Last day of sale!
Tags: Apex Magazine, Bestsellers, Delia Sherman, sale
Today is the last day of our ***50% off*** Small Beer ebooks—and 25% off anything else and the Apex (win a Nook Tablet) subscription drive!
Engines = 50% off Livia Llewellyn’s Engines of Desire: Tales of Love & Other Horrors
Small = 50% off all Small Beer Press and Big Mouth House titles!
WELCOME = 25% off ANYTHING!
It’s also the last day of the Apex subscription drive where there are tons of free books on offer as well as a chance at a Nook Tablet.
Next month we have the last installment (there will be wailing, gnashing of teeth, and more!) of Ginn Hale’s The Rifter. There will be an online party—with giveaways—and we will point you toward it.
The sale shook things up and the November Bestseller list (so far) is:
June 2011 Bestsellers
Tags: Bestsellers
Continuing the fun we had with last month’s lists, this month we’ve got the regular Bestseller list as well as the Subscription Bestsellers. The Lightspeed and Fantasy Magazines: 12-Month Subscription drive (with all those prizes) has proved very popular, but, interestingly, Lightspeed is still the most popular magazine subscription. We are working on getting your subscriptions emailed directly to your ereading device and soon we’ll put up a poll to see what other features you’d like to see on the site.
June was a busy month as we added affiliates (unlike Am*zon, we’re not cutting them off!) and a great widget generator which allows you to show off your fave author’s book, or a publisher’s or a genre, or your own. We added a couple of new publishers, Cheeky Frawg (and for a couple of day Secret Lives was the number one seller) and Electric Velocipede, and an exclusive short story by Alan DeNiro (which is just 99c!), Moonlight is Bulletproof.
Less Than Three Press books began to pick up steam, but it’s still Ginn Hale who has the one ring—and a 10-part serial!—to rule them all.
Part 5 of The Rifter just arrived and we’ll be releasing it next week which means The Rifter is halfway there!
June 2011 (subscriptions)
June 2011 (everything)
May 2011 Bestsellers
Tags: Bestsellers, Ginn Hale
We’re readying the final few items for our subscription drive. One of those items is an affiliate program so that you can place widgets on your blogs/sites/t-shirts and earn affiliate fees on any readers you send our way. It sounds incredibly easy to talk about and is apparently incredibly hard to code. Luckily for me Michael is doing that part!
For fun this month I gave Ginn Hale her own bestseller list. Not surprisingly The Rifter Subscription is still #1 on both of our lists but in between Ginn’s titles, it turns out we sell lots of other books but . . . more magazines: interesting! I combined the subscriptions and the individual issues for the second list. Showing my bias: LCRW would have been #6, aww. Good thing we’re adding another couple of magazines soon, Something Wicked, Electric Velocipede, maybe Realms of Fantasy, as well as another that’s truly exciting!
Thanks again for going Weightless!
May 2011 (Ginn Hale bestseller list)
May 2011 (everything else!)
Lightspeed is in, we’re back, we sold a lot of books in March
Tags: Apex Magazine, Bestsellers, Clarkesworld, Fantasy Magazine, Lethe PressDon’t worry Lightspeed subscribers: your subscription is still working, the site is still here, it’s just that this month’s issue was delayed by the publisher. And that’s it: sent out! Apologies for the delay and thanks for your patience.
Perhaps not surprising to those who follow Ginn Hale but March was a massive month for us here due to the release of the first part of The Rifter. It’s going so well we’re hoping to bring you more serials and at some point we’ll start releasing original Weightless Books ebooks. But more on that in the future.
Before the bestsellers I should mention that on the first Monday of the month we added new issues of Apex, Clarkesworld, and Fantasy magazines. Apex just transferred their subscribers over here: hi everyone! About 2% of subscribers had problems which Michael sorted out pretty quickly. As ever: more subscriptions will be coming soon. And, Michael has a story in the new issue of Apex: check it out!
March 2011
Darn website. Why does it want to run the bottom of the list right into the text below? Here’s some hard to read text to move them apart.
Besides all the magazine fun we added another of John Joseph Adams‘s huge anthologies, The Way of the Wizard; an anthology of three space operas, Battlestations, from David Drake; and the promising-looking Promises, Promises by L-J Baker:
Sandy Blunt, witch, has big dreams but C-average magic skills. Her only noteworthy talent is for paying extravagant compliments to women. Trouble is, when she uses that gift, she unwittingly foretells the future for a pretty princess. The punishment for prophesying about one of royal blood is death. With the help of ill-assorted companions, including a self-professed princess in disguise with a wild imagination, a self-absorbed member of the royal guard, and the not-so-average girl next door, Sandy has a year and a day to travel to far-flung places–encountering such dangerous creatures as a dragon who writes awful poetry, slovely elves, and boarding house landladies–to collect the weird and magical items needed to turn her prophecies into promises and so evade the executioner
February Bestsellers
Tags: Bestsellers, Ginn Hale, subscriptionsAs expected, with the launch of The Rifter, February was indeed the month of Ginn Hale. If it wasn’t for that plucky little zine jumping in at #5, it would be an all hail Hale list. Phew. Just below #5 there were quite a few titles almost making the list. With all the new publishers we’ve been adding there are quite a few books just beginning to be noticed. With all these magazines being added, there are a ton more “Also by” titles appearing on the right hand side. Bull Spec #4 is a great example as up pops The Homeless Moon, Spicy Slipstream Stories, Jabberwocky 5, and more. So it’s easy to find more work by new (or favorite) authors.
We launched this store onto the wild internet seas a year ago and we’re beginning to find our sea legs—although I still make mistakes that need Michael to fix, eek! We have some good-sized publishers to add soon and some literary journals should be appearing. I like adding subscriptions (although it makes for a hairy few days at the end of the month!) so there will be more of those and by next month we hope to have a redesign to reflect the larger size of the site and to make books easier to find. As ever email or comment if there are things you want (or don’t want) to see.
And thanks as ever for choosing independent DRM-free ebooks & Weightless!
February 2011
New Ginn Hale, new magazine, Brisbane photos, more
Tags: Bestsellers
For a lot of readers all you need to know is that we have Ginn Hale’s Lord of the White Hell Book Two this week. But, do remember to come back next month for The Rifter.
We’re very happy to introduce a new magazine this week: the Hugo Award winner, Clarkesworld Magazine, which is available in both individual issues (there are more than 30 available!) and as an annual subscription. Each issue features two stories, an interview, and then something else. This month we have fiction by Rachel Swirsky (“Diving After the Moon”) and D. Elizabeth Wasden (“Three Oranges”), an interview with David Weber, and articles by Kerry Tynan Fraser (“Neologism and Linguicide”) and Julie Dillon (“The Process of Creating ‘Nautili’”).
We also have three anthologies from Neil Clarke’s Wyrm Publishing: Realms 1 and Realms 2 (easy ways to get all the fiction from the first two years of Clarkesworld), and Jeff & Ann VanderMeer’s Last Drink Bird Head—all proceeds from which go to ProLiteracy.org.
And it being February 1 Lightspeed Magazine‘s February issue came out with stories from Cat Rambo (which features a liberated sexbot!, Julie E. Czerneda, Ken Liu,and James Patrick Kelly.
Next month (seems like we’re always working on next month we’re pretty excited to be launching another subscription: Fantasy Magazine. The March issue has stories from Genevieve Valentine and Tanith Lee as well as reprints from Holly Black and George R. R. Martin. And April has Peter S. Beagle (a story from his new collection), Kat Howard, Jonathan Howard, and a reprint from Carrie Vaughn.
And if you like to read for a good cause, there are only two more weeks to get the After the Rain: After the Floods limited ebook edition edited by Tehani Wessely. 100% of donations (minus the Paypal fee) will go to the Queensland Flood Relief Appeal.
Robert Hoge’s photo on the right of the State Library in Brisbane is enough to make any bibliophile cry. One of our favorite illustrators, Kathleen Jennings (see the cover for Greer Gilman’s Cloud & Ashes), lives just high enough up that her house wasn’t flooded, but many of her neighbors on the same street were flooded. You can see a video of the flood on her blog here and read her journal here. It’s amazing stuff and I recommend both and please consider buying the anthology and donating.
January Bestsellers
Tags: BestsellersJanuary sales were the best ever: thank you! We just sneaked past December sales in the last few days of the month: what a way to start the year.
Looking at our bestseller chart, 2011 might indeed be the year of Ginn Hale. In January Lord of the White Hell Book One was #1. Today we released Lord of the White Hell Book Two and it will be hard to beat. Next month we’re launching her most ambitious and compulsively readable project yet: The Rifter. It’s a ten-part serialized novel and the first episode, The Shattered Gates, will be published on March 8, 2011. Episodes will be $3.99, subscriptions will be available from next week for $29.95.
Lightspeed Magazine eSubscription debuted at number two on the list. It’s very popular with readers. The February issue just came out and was sent to subscribers and now appears in subscribers My Libraries (all that despite my best efforts to mess it up, sorry!).
It makes a lot of sense that the A Working Writer’s Daily Planner 2011 hit the chart—the print edition has been flying off the shelves, too. And I’m very happy to see Small Beer’s latest title, Kelley Eskridge’s Solitaire jump round out the top 5 in its month of publication. It’s a great SF thriller with big ideas (and a Big Idea) and fantastic characters.
Thanks again for reading and for . . . helping us provide an alternative space on the web for great DRM-free ebooks!
January
2010 and December Bestsellers
Tags: 2010, Bestsellers2010 was a lot of fun here at Weightless and huge thanks go to all the curious readers who came, looked around, and picked up some books—as well, of course, as to all those publishers who signed up with us: Blind Eye Books first and everyone since.
The post-Xmas sale went over fantastically: December sales were double November’s—and November had been our best month ever. Don’t know that January can live up to that kind of pressure. Wooee! Which means we have some nice royalties to pay out this month on the last quarter. Whoopee for sharing the joy.
In 2011 we’re going to be adding more publishers, we have a huge serial coming, there will be more zines and subscriptions, and generally more of everything. We’re determined to make Weightless the number one alternative site for DRM-free ebooks from a whole host of interesting publishers. We’re open to adding more features, you tell us what you want and we’ll see if we can do it.
I cheated a bit with the 2010 bestseller list by combining the sales of the three parts of Astrid Amara’s The Archer’s Heart together. In the future, we might put up bestsellers for each press (will think about that as we add more titles) and maybe to combine all the issues of the magazines per year (LCRW would been in #5 and Fairy Tale Review in #8). Playing with numbers: so much time-wasting possibilities!
Ginn Hale dominated the December and 2010 lists—and we have good news for Hale fans: Rifter is coming!—but didn’t quite have enough titles to fill the Top 5 in December or the Top 10 for the year. So far this year she’s duking it out with the Lightspeed Magazine eSubscription which is getting rave reviews from readers. We had a subscription blip when the website (that thing that Michael works on while I fly about the world giving after dinner speeches about ebooks) decided that the year changing meant it should go back in time and send the October issue out instead of the January issue. Technology: it’s weird. But he fixed it, as per usual, and now it is happily delivering the correct books to the right people.
Thanks for reading and for helping us provide an alternative space on the web for great DRM-free ebooks!
December
2010 Bestsellers