For example, Nook users who buy the first book in a popular series like "Fifty Shades of Grey" or "Divergent, " a young-adult series by Veronica Roth, tend to tear through all the books in the series, almost as if they were reading a single novel.
Publishers might be able to determine when interest in a fiction series is flagging if readers who bought and finished the first two books quickly suddenly slow down or quit reading later books in the series.
"Dead Man's Grip" is the seventh Roy Grace novel, and most of the previous books in the series aren't available here.
As tech books go O'Reilly's leads the pack with a series of books that have reached cult status for programmers and webmasters.
Tracy Hickman, of course, is the author of the Dragonlance books, a series of fantasy fiction I devoured when I was younger.
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Complaints soon poured in, and now the publisher is re-releasing the first seven books in the series and a new prologue, called The Summer Before.
Indeed, Ringil and his friends are not really anti-heroes at all, which is great because in so many recent books and television series, complexity is often achieved by creating heroes we love to hate.
By appealing to these readers, NYRB Classics has found short-term success publish good books that need to be in print, make them affordable and enticing, and cultivate a readership for those books and the series while laying the foundations of long-term viability.
The result: LULU: Collages by Lulu de Kwiatkowski, published by Ammo Books, a series of colorful mash-ups featuring photos of kids playing in the beach, painted zebras and toucans and some Victorian erotica again varying backdrops of verdant jungles and lollipop-tree forests.
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The "Nutshell series" of books is head and shoulders above any other series of programming reference series, covering Perl, CGI, Java, JavaScript.
Two books have come out recently that are excellent complements to delving into the great series of books written by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, beloved the world over as the creator of Middle-earth.
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Indeed, his original enchantment with astronomy came at age 12, from Tom Swift books and the TV series Science Fiction Theater.
The Mr Men books are a popular series for younger children, which has characters such as Mr Happy and Little Miss Sunshine.
Publishing rights to Bob the Builder are owned by BBC Worldwide and a series of books and a magazine have just been launched.
The movie was based on a successful series of books, the first of which came out in 2000, at the height of the dot-com boom.
As if on cue, a drama for kids about unemployment and foreclosure though one set during the Depression, based on the popular series of books and dolls.
Like an author writing a series of books on the side of what they are best known for, the pseudonym offers an alternate, but persistant identity.
Time Warner can take a brand say, Batman from a comic and turn it into a movie, a television series, books, clothes, toys, with each of those outlets both generating revenue and promoting the brand.
The editorial content in the 112-page issue was made up of the kind of short, uplifting contributions from real people that made the series of books based on Chicken Soup for the Soul a success.
The phrase was first used by Mee - a celebrated writer and journalist best known for his 1908 Children's Encyclopaedia - in The King's England, a 1930s series of books offering a guide to each of England's counties.
Race Against the Machine seems to be another in the near interminable series of books that tell us that machines are soon going to be able to do everything therefore no one at all will have a job.
On returning to Egypt, Qutb wrote a series of books, many from prison, denouncing jahiliyya (ignorance), a state of affairs he categorised as the domination of man over man, or rather subservience to man rather than to Allah.
His books consist of a series of plainly stated statistical observations, in support of deceptively modest conclusions, and the evidence in support of his original observation is now so overwhelming that the Flynn effect has moved from theory to fact.
Gaiman, whose "Doctor Who" episode explored the doctor's most longstanding relationship in an unprecedented way, is known for the groundbreaking "The Sandman" graphic novel series and books like "Neverwhere, " "American Gods" and "Coraline, " which was turned into an Academy Award-nominated animated film in 2009.
He is not the first footballer to write fiction - Arsenal star Theo Walcott has written a series of children's books and former England manager Terry Venables co-wrote a series of crime novels.
My kids have entered that nebulous no-mans-zone known as the middle grade (or tween) years: too old for simple chapter books (like The Magic Tree House series), but too young to demolish YA books about vampires by the dozen.
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Travelers' Tales remains unprofitable, but O'Reilly, undaunted, has recently launched a series of medical books.
It is based on a series of five books, with more under way, and will probably run for years.
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