Recently (the article is dated April 5, 2010) Publisher's Weekly revised the ranked sales figures for adult hardcover fiction and nonfiction and trade and mass market paperbacks that appeared the March 22, 2010 issue. A complete explanation is here.
Note: We're only listing the number one entry. The lists continue on well beyond number one.
The rankings also include sales numbers in these categories:
A) Hardcover Fiction Sales, 2009
1. The Lost Symbol: A Novel. Dan Brown. Doubleday (5,543,643).
B) Hardcover Nonfiction Sales, 2009
1. Going Rogue: An American Life. Sarah Palin. Harper (2,674,684).
C) Mass Market
2,000,000+
The Associate: A Novel. John Grisham. Rep. Dell (2,150,227).
1,000,000+
Cross Country. James Patterson. Grand Central (1,275,888).
750,000+
7th Heaven. James Patterson. Grand Central (994,030).
500,000+
The Brass Verdict. Michael Connelly. Grand Central (768,417).
D) Trade Paperbacks
1,000,000+
The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity. William P. Young. Orig. Windblown (3,595,467).
750,000+
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace... One School at a Time. Greg Mortenson. Penguin (973,280).
500,000+
Say You're One of Them. Uwem Akpan. Back Bay. (708,033).
300,000+
My Life in France. Julia Child with Alex Prud'homme. Rep. Vintage/Anchor (497,731).
250,000+
Into the Wild. Jon Krakauer. Rep. Vintage/Anchor (299,147).
100,000+
*An Inconvenient Book: Real World Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems. Glenn Beck. Rep. Threshold. Note: "Entries preceded by an asterisk are titles for which exact sales numbers were supplied to PW in confidence, for use in ranking the titles only."
A family of resources to help information workers be more effective, raise the value of information in their organisations and contribute to success. Read more »
Recently I have found myself cooing over visualisation maps (and heat maps) of health and well being resources. The content rich data is overlayed with mapping technologies, and some interesting themes and patterns are emerging.
A lot of the talk around social media in the last year has been around information overload. Social media has provided us with new and exciting ways to create content. But it has also meant learning new ways to manage and engage with social media tools. Are we teetering on the edge of an information overload precipice?
Information overload is a figment of your imagination. Or a failure of your filter. Or a symptom of your technological submissiveness. Depends on who you ask.
What if you had to sort through 3.5 million articles and social media posts a day and try to pull out the most relevant items for your organisation? What if you then had to cobble it all together into something readable for your top groups and executives in your organisation?
Alacra Compliance saves time by aggregating information from both free and fee-based sources and enabling users to conduct an accurate federated search across these sources (coined “simultaneous search” by Alacra).
FreePint Family
Quilting big data threads
The fallacy of information overload
Information overload: fact, fantasy or filter failure? 
