Search
for Bestsellers
What this
screen looks like:
Click on the thumbnail image below to view the screen
that lets you search for bestsellers from two databases -- Bowker's
Over A Century database and Bowker's
Bestsellers Database that includes bestsellers from the last few
years from a wide variety of bestseller lists, including:
- Amazon.com
- Blackboard
- Booksense
- Boston Globe
- Business Week
- Chicago Tribune
- Los Angeles Times
- New York Times
- Northern California Independent Booksellers
- Publishers Weekly
- San Francisco Chronicle
- Toronto Globe & Mail
- USA Today
- Wall Street Journal
- Washington Post
- Notachain.com
How to
get to this screen:
- From any screen in booksinprint.com,
click BESTSELLERS
on the top navigation bar.
What you
can do from this screen:
- Locate titles that have been bestsellers over the last 104 years in the
Over
A Century bestseller database.
- See what's on Publishers Weekly's bestseller list for the current
week.
- Find out if a particular author/contributor has been on a bestseller list
- Search for bestselling titles by keyword in the title or subject
- Find titles on the bestseller lists listed above
How to
use this workspace:
Do one of the following:
- Enter a 4-digit year in the Over
A Century search field, then click SEARCH.
You'll arrive at a screen listing bestsellers for the time period you indicated.
- Or enter search term(s) in one or more of the Bowker's
Bestsellers Database workspace, then click SEARCH.
Search
Example:
The
image below shows an "Over A Century: search screen with the following
criteria:
This criteria results in the following screen:
The
image below shows a "Bowker's Bestsellers" search screen with the
following criteria:
- Author/Contributor: John Grisham
- New York Time bestseller list
The result would be a Search Results screen
listing the matching John Grisham titles.
