No word yet on rerun rights, but no doubt Dean Koontz has something in mind.
At number five was Danielle Steel, with John Grisham and Dean Koontz equal in sixth place.
By 1981, when Koontz's novel Whispers became his first paperback bestseller, he was able to test his gambit.
So in 1974 Gerda Koontz quit her job and started negotiating repurchase prices for 40 of his old books.
Writers are taught to write about what they know, but for Koontz, this one had to have been a stretch.
Today, revised and reissued, those books are worth millions to Koontz, who sells them to publishers along with his new work.
At 55, Koontz is one of the most successful writers on the planet, with 225 million copies of his 38-title oeuvre currently in print.
But Paul Koontz, of Foundation Capital, worries that a business whose strength and flexibility are largely based on personal relationships is now becoming institutionalised.
As a kid growing up in Connecticut's Fairfield County, he was a theater geek with an asymmetrical skater haircut and a bedroom full of Stephen King and Dean Koontz novels.
Many of them pale in comparison with his later works, yet Koontz was buoyed by fan letters, and he convinced himself that his rise from journeyman to bestselling author was imminent.
There's no particular reason that feature couldn't have just been relegated to the store, but Kobo clearly wanted to make it as simple as possible for you to spend some money on Dean Koontz books.
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