![]() Instead, we rent them, or hold them in a sort of long-term lease, the terms of which are brokered and policed exclusively by the leaseholder.Īs Boing Boing's Cory Doctorow put it in a blog post yesterday: But it serves as a bitter reminder that we don't ever truly own the digital goods and software we buy online. Nygaard's little dust-up with Amazon isn't, in and of itself, a big deal. What other account? Murphy wouldn't share that, either.Īnd it probably won't be. A man named Michael Murphy with Amazon UK's "Executive Customer Relations" told Nygaard her account had been determined to be "directly related to another which has been previously closed for abuse of our policies." Which policies? He wouldn't say. That's when things took a Kafkaesque turn ( as documented by her friend, Martin Bekkelund, on his blog). Those friendly phone-based customer support folks couldn't access Nygaard's account either, and she was passed on to "account specialists" who only communicated via email. Nygaard was pleased with Amazon's prompt service, she told us, even though this was her second Kindle to fall victim to "stripes" on the ePaper screen.īut when Nygaard attempted to log into her Amazon account the next day, her account was suspended - and with it access to her library of 43 books. (I live in Norway, but have a friend who lives in London.)" They could only ship the replacement to UK because it was originally purchased there, and I told them I would find an address the next day. "Someone immediately found the Kindle in the system and told me they would replace it free of charge. Let’s also connect on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.Īre you interested in the Kindle? We’ve got a lot more."Two weeks ago my Kindle started showing stripes on the screen and I contacted Amazon support," Nygaard told NBC News. To get more posts like this, please subscribe by RSS or email. co-authors (naming only writers who work with James Patterson) are listed separately.ĭata collected between July 25 and November 19, 2017.books co-written by authors are added to their total score,.It means the list includes more than 100 authors, if two or more authors get the same number of points, they are ranked at the same position in the Top 100.Here are the rules for the ranking of the best Kindle authors of all time: The more books an author managed to place in annual bestseller lists, the more points are counted. If a book is present on more than one annual list, its points are added. The #1 book gets 100 points the last one receives 1 point. The main rule for creating the rankings of the best Kindle books and authors of all time is based on points collected from annual bestseller lists. Years on annual lists – how many years author’s books were present on annual lists of Kindle bestsellers for years 2007-2017.Books on annual lists – a total number of author’s books on annual lists of Kindle bestsellers for years 2007-2017,.Books in Top 100 – a total number of author’s books in the Top 100 ranking of Kindle books,.Points – a total number of points collected,.# – a position of the author, based on the number of points collected,.And 100% of them landed in the main ranking of Top 100 Kindle books of all time.ĭetails you can compare in the ranking are: All four publications were ranked very high on annual lists. She published three books from the Hunger Games series, plus a bundle collecting them in a single edition. Suzanne Collins is on the opposite side of the landscape. As much as 46 of books he had written or co-written landed on annual bestseller lists. James Patterson wins thanks to being a prolific writer. The chart also shows authors’ working style and attitude. Rowling, would easily join the club if they had decided to release their books in Kindle edition soon enough. Other big names in publishing, naming only J.K. Two authors – David Baldacci and Lee Child – managed to place their books on all lists since 2007. The second best authors is David Baldacci, followed by Suzanne Collins.įive authors (James Patterson, Lee Child, David Baldacci, Nicholas Sparks and Michael Connelly) were present on annual Kindle bestseller lists for ten years. In the top 100 ranking of all time, there are ten books he authored or co-authored. It is an excellent material for analysis. Let’s now take a detailed look at the chart putting together most successful authors who published their books in the Kindle Store between November 2007 and November 2017. In the main post, you will find top 100 Kindle books of all time, Kindle Unlimited bestsellers, top 10 books in fiction and nonfiction, as well as top categories.
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