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"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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About the Author
JODIE ARCHER bought and edited books for Penguin UK before decamping for the doctoral program in English at Stanford University. After earning her Ph.D., she worked at Apple as their research lead on literature and has since consulted with many writers and businesses about literary success. She is now a full-time writer, coauthoring The Bestseller Code with Matthew L. Jockers.MATTHEW L. JOCKERS is the Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he teaches and directs the Nebraska Literary Lab. His text-mining research has been profiled in the New York Times, The LA Review of Books, The Sunday Times of London, and more. Matthew is the author of Macroanalysis: Digital Methods and Literary History and coauthor of The Bestseller Code with Jodie Archer.
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Product details
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; Reprint edition (October 10, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781250088758
ISBN-13: 978-1250088758
ASIN: 1250088755
Product Dimensions:
5.5 x 0.7 x 8.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.1 out of 5 stars
74 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#262,912 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
First, let me explain what this book is, and is not. This is not, as other reviewers have pointed out, a how-to guide on writing your own bestseller. What it is is a compilation of empirical data and analyses of the data gathered through a computational algorithm that were fed rules to look for in bestsellers. The program revealed latent patterns in the sample of books used for this research, then those characteristics were used to assess similarities among the bestsellers.In laying out the elements of a bestseller, one of the phenomena this book dissects, and dives into, is something that's been begging an explanation for a little while. The question is mystifying, as it is culturally relevant, socially significant, and just plain flummoxing to a person like me who is not in the know. It is this: why has Fifty Shades of Grey book series made such a colossal wave and became a part of the lexicon among readers around the world? Why is the dang thing so popular?Virtually everyone who has read the books, even those who are in the 'like' camp, admit that they fall short on many accepted guidelines: style, prose, characters, plot, etc. They even defy the general rule (as compiled and presented by the authors here) among bestsellers: books with explicit sex do not get on the NYT list.And yet, when they put E.L. James' popular book through their machine reading program, it scored a high mark that put it comfortably in the bestseller category. Just as a point of reference, their computer reader picked two authors (from their pool of 5,000 books analyzed for their research) as the most emblematic bestselling authors: Danielle Steel and John Grisham. Not a huge surprise there. To its credit, the computer definitely seems to have picked correctly. These are two of the most hugely popular, cash-making authors working today. So how does that explain this Grey fellow?It turns out, Fifty Shades does ultimately manage the golden balance of what makes it a bestseller. Very broadly, these elements are: fewer topics covered (more focused), and human closeness (emotional relevance to readers -- relatability). There are other elements, but these are the key ones from what I gathered.This is a short, educational, and fun book to read that really hit it on the money for me. I have often been confounded by looking at the bestsellers lists: why that book? Oh my god, I cannot believe people are actually buying this book? And how many has that book sold? So I've been interested in finding out what the general, mainstream readers are looking for in these books.Lastly, another thing I found interesting is the title of the book that scored the perfect 100% by the computer program. *The* book that balances all aspects of the bestseller attributes just right to achieve this feat. I have yet to read the book, but I'm curious now to read it to see how captivating it will be.After reading this book I feel relatively satisfied with their explanations. And just the fact these authors spared me from reading 'Fifty Shades of Grey' to try to make myself understand its phenomenon, makes reading this book worth it.
This is a fascinating look at the fabric of a bestseller. While all writers are told to read the bestsellers and look for patterns of why the books work, these authors actually had computers analyze thousands of non-bestsellers and bestsellers for thousands of factors and saw the actual patterns of what made something more or less likely to be a bestseller. If you've ever wondered why Fifty Shades of Grey was such a hit--this book explains it and it's not simply because it was mommy porn. I really enjoyed this new perspective on what makes a book hit a list. A lot of the patterns had to do with key writing concepts--beat sheets, powerful verbs, active protagonists. It was refreshing to have all that writing advice reconfirmed with actual statistical proof. This book will not teach you how to write a bestseller, but it will tell you some of the hallmarks of bestsellers and it will make you think about your story from a new perspective. I highly recommend it!
I was hesitant to read this. I didn't want to believe that a machine could write a book. I wanted to believe in the magic of human creativity.After reading it, I was relieved to learn that human creativity is alive and well. But we can find patterns to improve our writing style and connect with readers on a deeper level. If you want to understand your readers better and deeper their experience of your work, read this!For readers - you may discover why you loved that special book so much!
Very interesting, but if you're a fiction writer, I'm not sure what use you can make of the knowledge imparted by this book.One of the messages of this book is that your writing style, like your DNA, is ingrained. That's why text analysis worked to uncover, for example, that "The Cuckoo's Calling" by Robert Galbraith was really written by J.K. Rowling. I take from this factoid that if your particular writing style does not happen to fall into the "bestseller style" category, you're doomed -- you're not going to write NY Times bestselling fiction no matter how hard you try.
The Bestseller Code is intriguing and full of good advice for novelists. The book itself is written like a couple of academians seeking to fulfill a publishing requirement. Most of all they don't seem to get it that their code/process could be used to charge writers to submit their current book to be analyzed and critiqued. I have three of my own books I would pay to see what their system would say.
In a book about text analysis data they don’t present a lot of data. Their main conclusion is that pacing is important. There are a few interesting side notes about the publishing industry.
This book contains quite a lot of filler to pad the results and try to make it more exciting. I'd have preferred more meat and less fluff, including more examples of reports. However, the information (once you reach it about a third into the book) is very useful and insightful.
Amazing! There are books on how to write blockbuster novels, etc. but this Bestseller Code looks at writing in a very different way. The fact that the detailed analysis of bestseller books is done by a machine is in itself amazing but let's not forget that two people knew how to input the data in the computer. When I finish reading I had a clear picture of the anatomy of a bestseller book.
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