Star Trek novelization makes bestsellers lists

[Christopher]

^^Trek novels stopped hitting the bestseller lists long before Trek vanished from the airwaves. In fact, I always suspected that the increasing frequency with which Trek novels came out made it harder for them to crack the bestseller lists, since readers might have to pick and choose between the books when there were so many of them, meaning that no single one could get as big an audience.

But who knows? If the movie novelization made the bestseller lists, maybe the Abramsverse novels will as well. At least, I certainly hope so, since I'm writing the second one.

 

[JD]

Didn't the last three A Time To books, and first Titan book make it on the USA today list?

 

[Therin of Andor]

I always suspected that the increasing frequency with which Trek novels came out made it harder for them to crack the bestseller lists

Yep. At one of the annual Brisbane ST conventions, Richard Arnold said something similar - that two MMPBs per month were only selling half as much each than the previous schedule of one MMPB per month - although I seem to recall John Ordover and KRAD disagreeing strongly with that when I mentioned it here.

However, then John O had discovered that two related MMPBs, coming out in the same month, actually sold more per book than if they had come out in subsequent months - and that started a whole new trend (which seemed rather wasteful to completists like me, who'd have preferred chunkier single issues).