The Bestseller Code

The Bestseller Code
Author: Jodie Archer
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2016-09-20
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1250088283


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"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 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? Thanks to Jodie Archer and Matthew Jockers, 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. This book explains groundbreaking text-mining research in accessible terms and offers a new perspective on the New York Times bestseller list. It's a big-idea book about the relationship between creativity and technology that will be provocative to anyone interested in how analytics have already transformed the worlds of finance, medicine, and sports. But at heart it 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.

The Bestseller Code
Language: en
Pages: 253
Authors: Jodie Archer
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-09-20 - Publisher: St. Martin's Press

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"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
The Bestseller Code
Language: en
Pages: 256
Authors: Jodie Archer And Matthew Jockers
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-09-13 - Publisher: Allen Lane

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"Girl on the Train. Fifty Shades. The Goldfinch.Why do some books capture the whole world's attention? What secret DNA do they share? In The Bestseller Code, Ar
The Bestseller Code
Language: en
Pages: 253
Authors: Jodie Archer
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-09-20 - Publisher: Macmillan

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"What if there was an algorithm that could predict which novels become mega-bestsellers? Are books like Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code and Gillian Flynn's Gone G
Breaking the Bestseller Code
Language: en
Pages:
Authors: Rory Carruthers
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-06-05 - Publisher:

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Becoming Bestsellers: John Grisham and Danielle Steel (Sample from Chapter 2 of THE BESTSELLER CODE)
Language: en
Pages: 253
Authors: Jodie Archer
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-08-16 - Publisher: St. Martin's Press

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This sneak peek teaser - featuring literary giants John Grisham and Danielle Steele - from Chapter 2 of The Bestseller Code, a groundbreaking book about what a