Not long ago, I decided to check the sales ranks of the ten most recent New Pulp releases. It was so popular that I kept doing it, adding to it more books as they came out.
Originally, I just included all the recent releases that I could think of and ranked them — over time, people have pointed me towards other new releases that I was unaware of and they are now factored in. If there’s a recent New Pulp title I seem to be forgetting, let me know and I’ll try to include it next time for a more accurate Top 10 on Amazon.
This list does not include eBooks. For now, I’m tracking only print sales. I don’t think it’s fair to compare books that routinely cost $10 or more against eBooks that are usually $3 or less. An eBook list may be coming in the future.
This list does not include every New Pulp book ever published. I do this on my own time and can’t possibly check every New Pulp book’s sale ranks every week. What I did was pick a starting date and MOVED FORWARD. So you won’t see The Rook Volume One or Will Murray’s Doc Savage titles from the 1990s. This is stuff that I’ve been tracking since Fall 2011 FORWARD.
Now, how Amazon calculates those 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.
But these are the sales ranks as of Monday morning, January 30, 2012. These sales ranks do not include sales from any site other than Amazon — so they don’t include Barnes and Noble or face-to-face sales or sales through any other website. It’s only sales through Amazon.
As an example, I know that Fortune’s Pawn is the bestselling book in Pro Se’s history but a large percentage of those sales obviously did not go through Amazon (at least not recently). So you have to take these sales ranks with a wink and a nod. Likewise, some things didn’t show up at all on Amazon or else had zero sales rank. That doesn’t mean that those books are not selling (I know they are!) but just that they aren’t selling yet through Amazon, for whatever reason.
Without further ado, here’s the completely and totally unofficial New Pulp bestseller list as of right now (title then sales rank):
1) Under the Moons of Mars by Various (Simon & Schuster) – 7,304
2) Doc Savage: Horror in Gold by Will Murray (Altus Press) – 40,208
3) Doc Savage: The Desert Demons by Will Murray (Altus Press) – 132,165
4) Sherlock Holmes: The Crossovers by Various (Moonstone) — 202,414
5) The Lone Ranger Chronicles – Paperback Edition (Moonstone) – 345,849
6) The Lone Ranger Chronicles – Limited Edition Hardcover (Moonstone) – 573,685
7) The Avenger: The Justice Inc. Files by Various (Moonstone) – 583,345
8 ) The Green Hornet Casefiles by Various (Moonstone) — 702,967
9) The Lone Ranger: Vendetta by Howard Hopkins (Moonstone) – 750,355
10) Tales of the Vagabond Bards by Nancy Hansen (Pro Se Press) – 752,824
That sales ranking for Under the Moons of Mars is the best I’ve seen since I started track New Pulp sales. That’s no misprint — that’s actually 7,304. That book is selling, folks. The Doc Savage books are juggernauts in the New Pulp field and there’s around 33,000 ranks between # 1 & # 2 here. Wowza. Moonstone continues to dominate the list, coming in at # 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9. That’s six spots out of the top ten. But we have a newcomer this week, as Nancy Hansen’s Tales of the Vagabond Bards cracks the Top Ten! Challenger Storm by Don Gates, which had been a fixture in recent weeks, slipped out of the Top Ten. We continue to see a sharp divide between the bigger companies (Altus, Moonstone, etc.) and the smaller players.
Just missing the list was The Halloween Legion by Martin Powell (Wild Cat Books) – 755,315.
Take it all with a grain of salt, folks.
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