Eckhart Tolle Winfrey Tops sales list

 Congratulations, Eckhart Tolle. You lead the list of vendors of largest of the Oprah Winfrey Show club book of the last decade.

Nielsen BookScan, which tracks about 75 per cent of non-book sales, announced Friday choice that Winfrey for mutual assistance that favorite "A new Earth" in 2008 has led to approximately 3.4 million copies sold. The second was James Frey notorious "A Million little pieces", with a little less than 2.7 million copies. The classic Elie Wiesel Holocaust memoirs "night" was third, to about $ 2 million.

The list is not complete, including 27 of 65 of Winfrey picks, accounting for more than 22 million books sold. Nielsen included only works out editors in special editions of Winfrey book club. And Nielsen, which began in 2001, has no numbers for 1996 to 2000 Winfrey club. She completed her long talk-show on 25 May.

"We will surely miss her from a commercial point of view, but also because of how she talk about books.". I think that reading groups begin much more with it, "said Susan Petersen Kennedy, President of Penguin Group (USA), who published" A new Earth "and other major vendors of Winfrey, including" the pillars of the Earth to Ken Follett "and John Steinbeck"east of Eden.""

"The Road of Cormac McCarthy," Gabriel Garcia Marquez' "Love in the time of cholera" and Joyce Carol Oates were also in the top 10.

Winfrey was a manufacturer of guaranteed success, but Nielsen figures show surprisingly erratic sales, even a book to a book. In 2002, "Fall on your knees Ann - Marie MacDonald" sold more than 700,000 copies, while the next selection, "Toni Morrison"sula".", has fallen below 150,000 Phase of "classics" Winfrey, from 2003 to 2005, reached a peak at the beginning with the million selling "east of Eden" and fell less than 200 000 with the final choicea trio of novels by William Faulkner.

After "A new land," have dropped regularly. The next book, David Wroblewski first novel "The story of Edgar Sawtelle" sold 770,000 copies, followed by a collection of stories, of Uwem Akpan "say that you are one of them," which sold 405,000. The e-book rising tide likely sales injured for the final choice of Winfrey, in December 2010, a special edition of Penguin of the novels of Charles Dickens, "A Tale of two cities" and "great Expectations." They recorded only 95,000 copies by Nielsen, the least on the list. The two novels are out of the right to author and widely available in the free editions online.

"I would have preferred that people bought the books," said Kennedy, who cited the free electronic books as the main reason for the decline in sales. "However, at least people were reading and it is wonderful."