Book Title Best Sellers

Print-on-demand vanity publisher Lulu.com has released results for their study of best selling titles. It’s more of a business promotion than a truly scientific and independent study, but the results are interesting.

Among the study’s findings:

  • Figurative or abstract titles, such as Sleeping Murder, or Presumed Innocent, produce more top-sellers than literal ones, such as The Da Vinci Code.
  • A title’s length does not affect sales — contrary to publishing industry wisdom, which decrees that bestseller titles be short.