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- Book Title
- The Bestseller Code: Anatomy of the Blockbuster Novel
- Publication Date
- 2016-09-20
- Pages
- 256
- ISBN
- 9781250088277
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
ISBN-10
1250088275
ISBN-13
9781250088277
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219096906
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Number of Pages
256 Pages
Publication Name
Bestseller Code : Anatomy of the Blockbuster Novel
Language
English
Subject
Publishing, General, Books & Reading
Publication Year
2016
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Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines, Literary Collections
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Hardcover
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1 in
Item Weight
12.7 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
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5.8 in
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2016-014363
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"Non-formulaic, eye-opening, deeply-researched -- and really worth your time."-- GQ "Reveals the diverse directions in which popular fiction may be taken. . . the bestseller-ometer may find its most noble application as a democratizing force" -- The Atlantic "[T]his is a delightful book to read. I would recommend it as both an entertaining and educational read for anybody interested in the business of books" -- Digital Book World Daily "This interesting little tome shares some of the Bookputer's insights with us, just in case we want to become author-millionaires too. And who doesn't? . . . Fascinating" -- The Times Review "Aspiring novelists who thumb through this volume will find plenty to think about. . . [T]his book actually represents an opportunity for literary scholars" -- Public Books "Archer is not some Silicon Valley whizz-kid looking to reduce the novel to 0s and 1s, nor is she a pretentious academic coming over the hills to sling around jargon about middlebrow novels. . . [She] is smart, savvy and full of ideas." -- The Times of London "A laboratory is a more compelling setting than a church." -- The Wall Street Journal, which named The Bestseller Code one of the most-anticipated books of Fall 2016 "[The] claims are eye-grabbing. . . [and] also highly plausible." -- The Spectator Archer and Jockers "are 'literature-friendly' and want good books to succeed."-- Wired "When a story captures the imagination of millions, that's magic. Can you qualify magic? Archer and Jockers just may have done so." - Sylvia Day, New York Times bestselling author " The Bestseller Code excited me, scared me, and generally blew my mind. Archer and Jockers have built a reading robot that can teach readers, writers, and publishers a great deal about how popular fiction works. This is a pioneering work in a new science of storytelling." -- Jonathan Gottschall, author of The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human . "Archer and Jockers take an astonishing insight into the DNA of bestsellers and turn it into a gripping page-turner about how we read. Truly remarkable!"--Viktor Mayer-Schnberger, co-author of Big Data and professor at Oxford "May revolutionize the publishing industry." -- The Guardian " The Bestseller Code is an intriguing read and its analysis of what makes a plot tick and how readers are grabbed is compelling." --Literary Review, "Non-formulaic, eye-opening, deeply-researched -- and really worth your time."-- GQ "Reveals the diverse directions in which popular fiction may be taken. . . the bestseller-ometer may find its most noble application as a democratizing force" -- The Atlantic "[T]his is a delightful book to read. I would recommend it as both an entertaining and educational read for anybody interested in the business of books" -- Digital Book World Daily "This interesting little tome shares some of the Bookputer's insights with us, just in case we want to become author-millionaires too. And who doesn't? . . . Fascinating" -- The Times Review "Aspiring novelists who thumb through this volume will find plenty to think about. . . [T]his book actually represents an opportunity for literary scholars" -- Public Books "Archer is not some Silicon Valley whizz-kid looking to reduce the novel to 0s and 1s, nor is she a pretentious academic coming over the hills to sling around jargon about middlebrow novels. . . [She] is smart, savvy and full of ideas." -- The Times of London "A laboratory is a more compelling setting than a church." -- The Wall Street Journal, which named The Bestseller Code one of the most-anticipated books of Fall 2016 "[The] claims are eye-grabbing. . . [and] also highly plausible." -- The Spectator Archer and Jockers "are 'literature-friendly' and want good books to succeed."-- Wired "When a story captures the imagination of millions, that's magic. Can you qualify magic? Archer and Jockers just may have done so." --Sylvia Day, New York Times bestselling author " The Bestseller Code excited me, scared me, and generally blew my mind. Archer and Jockers have built a reading robot that can teach readers, writers, and publishers a great deal about how popular fiction works. This is a pioneering work in a new science of storytelling." --Jonathan Gottschall, author of The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human . "Archer and Jockers take an astonishing insight into the DNA of bestsellers and turn it into a gripping page-turner about how we read. Truly remarkable!" --Viktor Mayer-Schnberger, co-author of Big Data and professor at Oxford "May revolutionize the publishing industry." -- The Guardian " The Bestseller Code is an intriguing read and its analysis of what makes a plot tick and how readers are grabbed is compelling." --Literary Review, "When a story captures the imagination of millions, that's magic. Can you qualify magic? Archer and Jockers just may have done so." - Sylvia Day, New York Times bestselling author " The Bestseller Code excited me, scared me, and generally blew my mind. Archer and Jockers have built a reading robot that can teach readers, writers, and publishers a great deal about how popular fiction works. This is a pioneering work in a new science of storytelling." -- Jonathan Gottschall, author of The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human . "Archer and Jockers take an astonishing insight into the DNA of bestsellers and turn it into a gripping page-turner about how we read. Truly remarkable!"--Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, co-author of Big Data and professor at Oxford "May revolutionize the publishing industry." -- The Guardian " The Bestseller Code is an intriguing read and its analysis of what makes a plot tick and how readers are grabbed is compelling." --Literary Review, "When a story captures the imagination of millions, that's magic. Can you qualify magic? Archer and Jockers just may have done so." - Sylvia Day, New York Times bestselling author " The Bestseller Code excited me, scared me, and generally blew my mind. Archer and Jockers have built a reading robot that can teach readers, writers, and publishers a great deal about how popular fiction works. This is a pioneering work in a new science of storytelling." -- Jonathan Gottschall, author of The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human . "Archer and Jockers take an astonishing insight into the DNA of bestsellers and turn it into a gripping page-turner about how we read. Truly remarkable!"--Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, co-author of Big Data and professor at Oxford "May revolutionize the publishing industry." -- The Guardian, " The Bestseller Code excited me, scared me, and generally blew my mind. Archer and Jockers have built a reading robot that can teach readers, writers, and publishers a great deal about how popular fiction works. This is a pioneering work in a new science of storytelling." -- Jonathan Gottschall, author of The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human . "May revolutionize the publishing industry." -- The Guardian, "Non-formulaic, eye-opening, deeply-researched -- and really worth your time."-- GQ "Reveals the diverse directions in which popular fiction may be taken. . . the bestseller-ometer may find its most noble application as a democratizing force" -- The Atlantic "[T]his is a delightful book to read. I would recommend it as both an entertaining and educational read for anybody interested in the business of books" -- Digital Book World Daily "This interesting little tome shares some of the Bookputer's insights with us, just in case we want to become author-millionaires too. And who doesn't? . . . Fascinating" -- The Times Review "Aspiring novelists who thumb through this volume will find plenty to think about. . . [T]his book actually represents an opportunity for literary scholars" -- Public Books "Archer is not some Silicon Valley whizz-kid looking to reduce the novel to 0s and 1s, nor is she a pretentious academic coming over the hills to sling around jargon about middlebrow novels. . . [She] is smart, savvy and full of ideas." -- The Times of London "A laboratory is a more compelling setting than a church." -- The Wall Street Journal, which named The Bestseller Code one of the most-anticipated books of Fall 2016 "[The] claims are eye-grabbing. . . [and] also highly plausible." -- The Spectator Archer and Jockers "are 'literature-friendly' and want good books to succeed."-- Wired "When a story captures the imagination of millions, that's magic. Can you qualify magic? Archer and Jockers just may have done so." - Sylvia Day, New York Times bestselling author " The Bestseller Code excited me, scared me, and generally blew my mind. Archer and Jockers have built a reading robot that can teach readers, writers, and publishers a great deal about how popular fiction works. This is a pioneering work in a new science of storytelling." -- Jonathan Gottschall, author of The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human . "Archer and Jockers take an astonishing insight into the DNA of bestsellers and turn it into a gripping page-turner about how we read. Truly remarkable!"--Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, co-author of Big Data and professor at Oxford "May revolutionize the publishing industry." -- The Guardian " The Bestseller Code is an intriguing read and its analysis of what makes a plot tick and how readers are grabbed is compelling." --Literary Review, "Non-formulaic, eye-opening, deeply-researched -- and really worth your time."-- GQ "A thought-provoking and interesting book." -- The Financial Times "Reveals the diverse directions in which popular fiction may be taken. . . the bestseller-ometer may find its most noble application as a democratizing force" -- The Atlantic "[T]his is a delightful book to read. I would recommend it as both an entertaining and educational read for anybody interested in the business of books." -- Digital Book World Daily "This interesting little tome shares some of the Bookputer's insights with us, just in case we want to become author-millionaires too. And who doesn't? . . . Fascinating." -- The Times Review "Aspiring novelists who thumb through this volume will find plenty to think about. . . [T]his book actually represents an opportunity for literary scholars." -- Public Books "Archer is not some Silicon Valley whizz-kid looking to reduce the novel to 0s and 1s, nor is she a pretentious academic coming over the hills to sling around jargon about middlebrow novels. . . [She] is smart, savvy and full of ideas." -- The Times of London "A laboratory is a more compelling setting than a church." -- The Wall Street Journal, which named The Bestseller Code one of the most-anticipated books of Fall 2016 "[The] claims are eye-grabbing. . . [and] also highly plausible." -- The Spectator "Archer and Jockers "are 'literature-friendly' and want good books to succeed."-- Wired "When a story captures the imagination of millions, that's magic. Can you qualify magic? Archer and Jockers just may have done so." --Sylvia Day, New York Times bestselling author " The Bestseller Code excited me, scared me, and generally blew my mind. Archer and Jockers have built a reading robot that can teach readers, writers, and publishers a great deal about how popular fiction works. This is a pioneering work in a new science of storytelling." --Jonathan Gottschall, author of The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human . "Archer and Jockers take an astonishing insight into the DNA of bestsellers and turn it into a gripping page-turner about how we read. Truly remarkable!" --Viktor Mayer-Schnberger, co-author of Big Data and professor at Oxford "May revolutionize the publishing industry." -- The Guardian " The Bestseller Code is an intriguing read and its analysis of what makes a plot tick and how readers are grabbed is compelling." --Literary Review, "Non-formulaic, eye-opening, deeply-researched -- and really worth your time."-- GQ "A thought-provoking and interesting book." -- The Financial Times "Reveals the diverse directions in which popular fiction may be taken. . . the bestseller-ometer may find its most noble application as a democratizing force" -- The Atlantic "[T]his is a delightful book to read. I would recommend it as both an entertaining and educational read for anybody interested in the business of books." -- Digital Book World Daily "This interesting little tome shares some of the Bookputer's insights with us, just in case we want to become author-millionaires too. And who doesn't? . . . Fascinating." -- The Times Review "Aspiring novelists who thumb through this volume will find plenty to think about. . . [T]his book actually represents an opportunity for literary scholars." -- Public Books "Archer is not some Silicon Valley whizz-kid looking to reduce the novel to 0s and 1s, nor is she a pretentious academic coming over the hills to sling around jargon about middlebrow novels. . . [She] is smart, savvy and full of ideas." -- The Times of London "A laboratory is a more compelling setting than a church." -- The Wall Street Journal, which named The Bestseller Code one of the most-anticipated books of Fall 2016 "[The] claims are eye-grabbing. . . [and] also highly plausible." -- The Spectator "Archer and Jockers "are 'literature-friendly' and want good books to succeed."-- Wired "When a story captures the imagination of millions, that's magic. Can you qualify magic? Archer and Jockers just may have done so." --Sylvia Day, New York Times bestselling author " The Bestseller Code excited me, scared me, and generally blew my mind. Archer and Jockers have built a reading robot that can teach readers, writers, and publishers a great deal about how popular fiction works. This is a pioneering work in a new science of storytelling." --Jonathan Gottschall, author of The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human . "Archer and Jockers take an astonishing insight into the DNA of bestsellers and turn it into a gripping page-turner about how we read. Truly remarkable!" --Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, co-author of Big Data and professor at Oxford "May revolutionize the publishing industry." -- The Guardian " The Bestseller Code is an intriguing read and its analysis of what makes a plot tick and how readers are grabbed is compelling." --Literary Review
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Synopsis
"Non-formulaic, eye-opening, deeply-researched -- and really worth your time."-- GQ Jodie Archer and Matthew L. Jockers' The Bestseller Code: Anatomy of the Blockbuster Novel is a big idea book that explains their text-mining research through a groundbreaking look at the New York Times bestseller list. It explores the relationship between creativity and analytics, picking bestsellers via algorithm with a high degree of accuracy. We know that technology has transformed the worlds of finance, medicine, and sports; now it's making its mark on books. Ask most people about massive success in the world of fiction, and you'll typically hear that it's a game of hazy crystal balls. The sales figures of E. L. James or Dan Brown seem to be freakish--random occurrences in an unknowable market. But what if there were an algorithm that could reveal a secret DNA of bestsellers, regardless of their genre? What if it knew, just from analyzing the words alone, not just why genre writers like John Grisham and Danielle Steel belong on the lists, but also that authors such as Junot Diaz, Jodi Picoult, and Donna Tartt had telltale signs of success all over their pages? The algorithm exists; the code has been cracked; and the results bring fresh new insights into how fiction works and why we read. The Bestseller Code offers a new theory for why Fifty Shades of Grey sold so well. It sheds light on the current craze for dark heroines. It reveals which themes tend to sell best. And all with fascinating supporting data taken from a five-year study of twenty thousand novels. Then there is the hunt for the one--the paradigmatic example of bestselling writing according to a computer's analysis of thousands of points of data. The result is surprising, a bit ironic, and delightfully unorthodox. At heart, The Bestseller Code is a celebration of books for readers and writers--a compelling investigation into how successful writing works, and a fresh take on our intellectual and emotional response to stories., "Non-formulaic, eye-opening, deeply-researched -- and really worth your time."-- GQ Jodie Archer and Matthew L. Jockers' The Bestseller Code: Anatomy of the Blockbuster Novel is a big idea book that explains their text-mining research through a groundbreaking look at the New York Times bestseller list. It explores the relationship between creativity and analytics, picking bestsellers via algorithm with a high degree of accuracy. We know that technology has transformed the worlds of finance, medicine, and sports; now it's making its mark on books. Ask most people about massive success in the world of fiction, and you'll typically hear that it's a game of hazy crystal balls. The sales figures of E. L. James or Dan Brown seem to be freakish--random occurrences in an unknowable market. But what if there were an algorithm that could reveal a secret DNA of bestsellers, regardless of their genre? What if it knew, just from analyzing the words alone, not just why genre writers like John Grisham and Danielle Steel belong on the lists, but also that authors such as Junot Diaz, Jodi Picoult, and Donna Tartt had telltale signs of success all over their pages? The algorithm exists; the code has been cracked; and the results bring fresh new insights into how fiction works and why we read. The Bestseller Code offers a new theory for why Fifty Shades of Grey sold so well. It sheds light on the current craze for dark heroines. It reveals which themes tend to sell best. And all with fascinating supporting data taken from a five-year study of twenty thousand novels. Then there is the hunt for "the one"--the paradigmatic example of bestselling writing according to a computer's analysis of thousands of points of data. The result is surprising, a bit ironic, and delightfully unorthodox. At heart, The Bestseller Code is a celebration of books for readers and writers--a compelling investigation into how successful writing works, and a fresh take on our intellectual and emotional response to stories.
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- n***c (94)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseseller was communicative about my shipment, media mail took a while and tracking wasn't updated frequently, but seller communicated to me very quickly on status. the item came new and wrapped as described, though the packaging in it was packed wasn't sturdy and falling apart when it got to me.