The best-selling book in print last year (1.8 million copies, according to Nielsen Bookscan) was Jeff Kinney’s “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck.”
But as the weekly trade journal Publishers Weekly points out, there is a wide discrepancy between what the book-buying consumer picks up in print and what he or she is ordering via e-books.
“Hard Luck” did not even crack the top 20 chart for consumers buying e-books via Amazon Kindle; perhaps consumers feel the heavily illustrated children’s book still reproduces better in print than it does on a tablet.
Fiction dominates the e-book world, with all 20 top slots occupied by novels, PW points out.