News and commentary posted in the Amazon Bestsellers section of Jewish Literary Review.
November 10, 2010
The editors at Amazon recently unveiled their picks for the top 100 books of 2010. Here are some of the Jewish books and authors we saw on the list (along with the praise from from Amazon’s reviews): 8. To The … Continue reading
August 1, 2010
Jewish bestsellers on Amazon are almost always surprising. I’m always amused by the books that end up in Amazon’s Jewish categories. That said, I take no responsibility for how Amazon categorizes these titles. That said, the lists always demonstrate some … Continue reading
April 3, 2009
We have not done this in a long while so let’s take a look at what’s popular in the Jewish categories on Amazon. As I’ve stated before, please keep in mind that Amazon chooses which books to place in which … Continue reading
July 1, 2008
We have not done this in a while so let’s take a look at what’s popular in the Jewish categories on Amazon. Please keep in mind that Amazon chooses which books to place in which categories. That said, there are … Continue reading
April 30, 2008
It’s been a while since we checked out the Jewish bestsellers on Amazon so I thought we’d take a gander at what’s selling. As usual, the books that make it into Amazon’s ‘Jewish’ categories can leave you scratching your head … Continue reading
March 6, 2008
I never got around to doing a February roundup of Jewish bestsellers on Amazon so here’s the list just a few days late. All of the results below are as of this morning. Amazon says they update the bestselling results … Continue reading
January 31, 2008
For this month’s roundup of the best-selling Jewish books on Amazon, I found another new category. I discovered the “Hot New Releases” section of Amazon and decided to include it because I thought it had some interesting titles when I … Continue reading
December 31, 2007
For this month’s roundup of Jewish bestsellers, I discovered another category in Amazon, “Jewish American.” It’s listed under World Literature and then under the United States subcategory. It was in that category that I came across my biggest surprise of … Continue reading
November 30, 2007
Time for our monthly look at the bestselling Jewish books on Amazon. All of these results are as of this morning, November 30. Amazon says they update the bestselling results each hour but, as I’ve said in the past, I … Continue reading
October 31, 2007
I wanted to report on the bestselling Jewish books on Amazon.com but I ran into a slight problem: how do you define a “Jewish” book. If you begin by searching for the word “Jewish” under Amazon’s Books category, you get … Continue reading
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