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Figure 6 | EPJ Data Science

Figure 6

From: Success in books: a big data approach to bestsellers

Figure 6

When do authors succeed? (A) The sales history of The Destroyermen series author Taylor Anderson, showing for each book the weekly hardcover sales. Curves marked with a star on top indicate bestsellers. Same for authors (B) Nick Vujicic, (C) Gail Carriger and (D) John Gerzema. (E) Heatmap showing the number of hardcovers a fiction author has published in their career vs the order i of one that became the first bestseller, (F) same for nonfiction authors. Only authors who started their career in 2008 and after are considered and boxes the authors shown in (A)–(D) belong to are marked accordingly. We see that while most bestselling authors first get on the NYTBL with their first book, later success is not uncommon

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