Welcome to All Pulp’s New Pulp EBook Best
Seller List, inspired by the work of Barry Reese! Before we get to what you’re
all waiting for, here are the rules by which this little list comes together.
1) This list only tracks Kindle sales through
AMAZON. It does not keep track of sales through Barnes and Noble, Kobo,
Smashwords, or anything else!
2) This list only tracks DIGITAL sales.
Exactly how Amazon calculates these things is mostly a trade secret and they
vary wildly from day to day. If I checked this tomorrow, the list could be very
different. This list reflects sales ranks as of Friday morning, March 8, 2013.
3) In order to keep the focus on new releases,
eligible works must have been published within the last three months. So, since
this list is being done on December 8, 2013. Please keep that in mind before complaining that Title X is
not listed. Also, keep in mind that for the most part, we are tracking sales
from smaller and mid level press publishers who actively publish New Pulp
material. We won’t generally track sales from Simon and Schuster or places like
that — they have the New York Times Bestseller List for that. If one of the
major publishers starts doing The Shadow or something, we’ll track that, but
some publishers will not be listed here in order to keep the focus on the
publishers actively working to produce and promote New Pulp.
4)
Like the name suggests, we’re
tracking “New” pulp —not sales rankings for reprints of classic material. In
order for something to qualify for this list, it has to be at least 50% new
material that has not been printed in book form before.
5) We are human. If you are aware of a title
that should be listed below (keeping in mind all the rules above), please let
us know and we will make sure to remedy the situation.
6) This information is garnered mostly from
All Pulp, New Pulp, the Pulp Factory mailing list and a few other sites. If you
think we might miss your release, let us know in advance — drop All Pulp a line
and tell us when it’s being released.
Without further ado, here’s the completely and
totally unofficial New Pulp Ebook Bestseller List as of right now (title, then
publisher, then release date, then sales rank):
1) The Cestus Concern by Mat Nastos (Nifty
Entertainment, December 28,2012) 4,914
2) Fourteen Western Stories by Lloyd Fonvielle
(Lloyd Fonvielle, December 18, 2012) – 36,613
3) Steamfunk by Various (MVMedia, February 20,
2013) – 45,702
4) Sherlock Holmes, Consulting Detective, Volume 4
by Various (Airship 27 Productions, January 19, 2013) – 48,800
5) Monster Earth by Various (Mechanoid Press, January
13, 2013) – 52,441
6) The Detective, The Woman and the Winking Tree by
Amy Thomas (MX Publishing, January 22, 2013) – 56,235
7) Nefertiti’s Heart by A. W. Exley (Curiosity
Quills Press, February 13, 2013) – 78,096
8) The Essex Man by Gary Phillips (Over The Edge
Books, January 31, 2013) - 94,624
9) Sherlock Holmes and Young Winston: The Jubilee
Plot (MX Publishing, January 21, 2013) - 123, 304
10)
Dreams of Steam Volume 3: Gadgets by Various (Dark Oak Press, February 19,
2013) 129, 178
Although there’s a bit of change in the lower end
of the Top 10, the top five remains the same as last week, except for the meteoric
reentrance of Monster Earth to the list and in the upper half. Two new titles from two companies not
yet featured on the Ebook List in its short life make it this week. All in all, at least genre/content
wise, the list is a veritable buffet of variety this week, which is a nice
change from the Holmes/mystery/crime dominated lists we’ve seen before.
MX Publishing chalks up two titles in the Best
Seller List this week with Dark Oak Press, Over The Edge Books, Nifty
Entertainment, MVMedia, Airship 27 Productions, Mechanoid Press, Curiosity
Quills Press, and Lloyd Fonvielle all make it with one title each. Got
your grain of salt handy to go with the list? Then, go!
