Publishers Weeklyが2012年の電子書籍の販売部数を発表しました。
米国での紙媒体の販売部数はまだ電子書籍を上回りますが、その差は相当縮まってきています。
注目すべき現象は、ベストセラーになったミステリーのGone Girl（洋書ファンクラブの2012年『これを読まずして歳は越せないで賞』候補作）です。なんと電子書籍の販売部数が紙媒体のそれを上回ったというのです（電子書籍が100万部以上で、紙媒体は90万部）。
また、電子書籍は紙媒体と異なり廃刊になることが少ないので、多くの本を出しているベテランは、総合的に収入が多くなるわけです。たとえば、ロマンスブックの上Nora Roberts は電子書籍が40作あり昨年だけで総合320万部を売っています。ギネスブックに登録されるほど刊行数が多いJames
Patterson は260万部、Janet Evanovichは180万部近く売ったようです。
売上トップのリストを下記にいくつかご紹介しますが、詳しくは元記事のPublishers Weeklyをどうぞ。
15 Million+ for All Three
*Fifty Shades of Grey: Book One. E.L. James. Vintage
*Fifty Shades Darker: Book Two. E.L. James. Vintage
*Fifty Shades Freed: Book Three. E.L. James. Vintage
One Million+
*Gone Girl: A Novel. Gillian Flynn. Crown
850,000+
*Fifty Shades Trilogy Bundle. E.L. James. Vintage
*Bared to You. Sylvia Day. Berkley
500,000+
*The Racketeer. John Grisham. Doubleday
*Reflected in You. Sylvia Day. Berkley
The Lucky One. Nicholas Sparks. Grand Central (569,544)
400,000+
*No Easy Day. Mark Owen. Dutton
*Defending Jacob. William Landay. Delacorte
*The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Book 1 of the Millennium Trilogy. Steig Larsson. Vintage
*A Game of Thrones. George R.R. Martin. Bantam
11/22/63: A Novel. Stephen King. Scribner (441,152)
The Innocent. David Baldacci. Grand Central (432,098)
*The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest: Book 3 of the Millennium Trilogy. Steig Larsson. Vintage
*The Last Boyfriend. Nora Roberts. Berkley
*The Help. Kathryn Stockett. Berkley
*A Dance with the Dragons. George R.R. Martin. Bantam
300,000+
*Unbroken. Laura Hillenbrand. Random House
*The Girl Who Played with Fire: Book 2 of the Millennium Trilogy. Steig Larsson. Vintage
11th Hour. James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. Little, Brown (372,071)
*The Witness. Nora Roberts. Berkley
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Jonathan Safran Foer. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (365,488)
Water for Elephants. Sara Gruen. Algonquin (355,466)
*The Perfect Hope. Nora Roberts. Berkley
*Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever. Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. Henry Holt
Kill Shot: An American Assassin. Vince Flynn. Emily Bestler Books (335,422)
Guilty Wives. James Patterson and David Ellis. Little, Brown (330,924)
Kill Alex Cross. James Patterson. Little, Brown (322,982)
Steve Jobs. Walter Isaacson. Simon & Schuster (311,727)
The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Stephen Chbosky. Gallery (305,634)
The Drop. Michael Connelly. Little, Brown (302,681)
200,000+
*A Wanted Man. Lee Child. Delacorte
*A Clash of Kings. George R.R. Martin. Bantam
*Wild. Cheryl Strayed. Knopf
The Best of Me. Nicholas Sparks. Grand Central (282,847)
*Deadlocked. Charlaine Harris. Ace
*Explosive Eighteen. Janet Evanovich. Bantam
*A Storm of Swords. George R.R. Martin. Bantam
*Game of Thrones, 4-Copy. George R.R. Martin. Bantam
Unfinished Business. Nora Roberts. Silhouette (275,279)
Where We Belong. Emily Giffin. St. Martin’s Press (269,907)
*The Next Always. Nora Roberts Berkley
The Last Man. Vince Flynn. Atria Books (260,776)
Private: #1 Suspect. James Patterson and Maxine Paetro. Little, Brown (262,379)
*Calico Joe. John Grisham. Doubleday
*Deep Down: Reacher Story. Lee Child. Delacorte
The Casual Vacancy. J.K. Rowling. Little, Brown (246,301)
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Seth Grahame-Smith. Grand Central (244,975)
*A Feast for Crows. George R.R. Martin. Bantam
*Notorious Nineteen. Janet Evanovich. Bantam
*Shadow of Night. Deborah Harkness. Viking
*Winter of the World. Ken Follett. Dutton
Lone Wolf. Jodi Picoult. Emily Bestler Books (232,026)
The Light Between Oceans. M.L. Stedman. Scribner (228,133)
*Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot. Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard. Henry Holt
Private Games. James Patterson and Mark T. Sullivan. Little, Brown (218,396)
Zero Day. David Baldacci. Grand Central (218,344)
American Sniper. Chris Kyle. Morrow (211,897)
NYPD Red. James Patterson and Marshall Karp. Little, Brown (208,092)
*Stolen Prey. John Sandford. Penguin
7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Stephen R. Covey. Free Press (203,352)
*The Litigators. John Grisham. Doubleday
I, Michael Bennett. James Patterson. Little, Brown (202,270)