Although Amazon maintains that keeping ebook prices low increases sales, these two charts seem to indicate that this is only true for self-published books. More than a third of this week’s overall top 25 titles cost more than $10, whereas self-published titles ranged from $2.99 to $4.99. Note that the majority of Smashwords' best-selling titles are romances.
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Digital Book World Daily, October 15, 2014
Top 25 Ebook Best-Sellers
Week Ending 10/11/14Sponsored by:
| Rank* | Title | Author | Publisher | Price** | Change |
| 1 (1) | Gone Girl: A Novel | Gillian Flynn | Penguin Random House | $ 6.38 | – |
| 2 (n/a) | The Heroes of Olympus (The Blood of Olympus Book 5) | Rick Riordan | Hachette | $ 8.99 | New |
| 3 (8) | The Best of Me | Nicholas Sparks | Hachette | $ 5.99 | +5 |
| 4 (2) | Stepbrother Dearest | Penelope Ward | Self-published | $ 3.99 | -2 |
| 5 (n/a) | Deadline (Virgil Flowers Book 8) | John Sandford | Penguin Random House | $ 11.99 | New |
| 6 (6) | Burn (Michael Bennett Book 7) | Michael Ledwidge | Hachette | $ 9.99 | – |
| 7 (3) | Outlander: A Novel | Diana Gabaldon | Penguin Random House | $ 4.99 | -4 |
| 8 (5) | Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II’s Most Audacious General | Martin Dugard | Macmillan | $ 9.99 | -3 |
| 9 (9) | The Maze Runner | James Dashner | Penguin Random House | $ 5.80 | – |
| 10 (4) | Gray Mountain: A Novel | John Grisham | Penguin Random House | $ 11.99 | -6 |
| 11 (15) | Dark Places: A Novel | Gillian Flynn | Penguin Random House | $ 4.99 | +4 |
| 12 (7) | Personal: A Jack Reacher Novel | Lee Child | Penguin Random House | $ 10.99 | -5 |
| 13 (11) | Edge of Eternity (The Century Trilogy Book 3) | Ken Follett | Penguin Random House | $ 11.99 | -2 |
| 14 (10) | Captivated by You (Crossfire Book 4) | Sylvia Day | Penguin Random House | $ 7.99 | -4 |
| 15 (13) | The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects | Gillian Flynn | Penguin Random House | $ 12.79 | -2 |
| 16 (n/a) | Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s “Learned” | Lena Dunham | Penguin Random House | $ 10.99 | New |
| 17 (14) | Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander Book 2) | Diana Gabaldon | Penguin Random House | $ 4.99 | -3 |
| 18 (17) | The Fault in Our Stars | John Green | Penguin Random House | $ 7.40 | -1 |
| 19 (12) | Big Little Lies | Liane Moriarty | Penguin Random House | $ 10.99 | -7 |
| 20 (n/a) | Leaving Time: A Novel | Jodi Picoult | Penguin Random House | $ 11.84 | New |
| 21 (21) | A Good Marriage | Stephen King | Simon & Schuster | $ 4.74 | – |
| 22 (19) | Orphan Train: A Novel | Christina Baker Kline | HarperCollins | $ 6.99 | -3 |
| 23 (n/a) | Voyager (Outlander Book 3) | Diana Gabaldon | Penguin Random House | $ 4.99 | New |
| 24 (23) | If I Stay | Gayle Forman | Penguin Random House | $ 4.99 | -1 |
| 25 (18) | Mean Streak | Sandra Brown | Hachette | $ 12.99 | -7 |
| Rank | Title | Author | ISBN | Genre | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All For This | Lexi Ryan | 9781940832951 | Romance | 3.99 |
| 2 | Fall To You | Lexi Ryan | 9781940832944 | Romance | 3.99 |
| 3 | Filthy Beautiful Lies | Kendall Ryan | 9781311020567 | Romance | 3.99 |
| 4 | Broken Silence | Natasha Preston | 9781301920686 | Romance | 2.99 |
| 5 | The Seduction 2 | Roxy Sloane | 9781311513724 | Romance | 2.99 |
| 6 | The Seduction 3 | Roxy Sloane | 9781311530370 | Romance | 2.99 |
| 7 | Saving Angel | Brenda Kennedy | 9781311884435 | Romance | 2.99 |
| 8 | The Seduction 4 | Roxy Sloane | 9781310951091 | Romance | 2.99 |
| 9 | Betrayed: Book Two | Nicky Charles | 9781311066817 | Paranormal Romance | 2.99 |
| 10 | Uninhibited | Melody Grace | 9781311419996 | Romance | 3.99 |
| 11 | Mud and Gold | Shayne Parkinson | 9781452303802 | Historical Fiction | 2.99 |
| 12 | Settling the Account | Shayne Parkinson | 9781452303840 | Historical Fiction | 2.99 |
| 13 | Nothing Left to Lose | Kirsty Moseley | 9781301339518 | Romance | 2.99 |
| 14 | Forever and Always | E. L. Todd | 9781310462849 | Romance | 4.99 |
| 15 | A Second Chance | Shayne Parkinson | 9781452303871 | Historical Fiction | 2.99 |
| 16 | Drawn 2 - Redemption | Lilliana Anderson | 9781310324413 | Romance | 3.99 |
| 17 | Storm Shells | GJ Walker-Smith | 9780987484567 | YA Romance | 3.99 |
| 18 | Second Hearts | GJ Walker-Smith | 9780987484550 | YA Romance | 3.99 |
| 19 | Three Years | Lili Saint Germain | 9780992526405 | Romance | 2.99 |
| 20 | Elicit | Rachel Van Dyken | 9780991587254 | Romance | 2.99 |
| 21 | Every Sunset Forever | R.E. Butler | 9781311041906 | Paranormal Romance | 2.99 |
| 22 | Secret North | GJ Walker-Smith | 9781311354280 | YA Romance | 3.99 |
| 23 | Sweet Fall | Tillie Cole | 9781310426995 | Romance | 2.99 |
| 24 | Fable | Chanda Hahn | 9781301123575 | YA Romance | 3.99 |
| 25 | The Silver Siren | Chanda Hahn | 9780996104807 | YA Romance | 3.99 |
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