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News, features and resources for media and publishing professionals. Friday, May 2, 2003 Blogs | Subscribe | Interviews | Events | Films | Book Blog Media Cynic | Forum | Advertising | Classifieds | Jobs BookFinder.com Report Reveals Top Out-of-Print Bestsellers BookFinder.com, a resource for finding out-of-print books, is introducing an out-of-print top-10 trend listing: The BookFinder.com Report. The list is a measure of the most sought after out-of-print titles in America. "This isn't the New York Times bestseller list," said BookFinder.com founder and CEO Anirvan Chatterjee. "The books in the BookFinder.com Report reflect the wide tastes of real readers. From Hunter S. Thompson to Carolyn Keene, it's all in there." Chatterjee originally developed BookFinder.com in 1996, as a class project when he was a nineteen-year-old student at the University of California, Berkeley. The BookFinder.com Report indicates that Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thomson's Curse of Lono is the most sought after out-of-print personal narrative. Carolyn Keene's The Nancy Drew Cookbook: Clues to Good Cooking is one of the most sought after out-of-print cookbooks. Some other titles that are Out of Print and In Demand include: Sex by Madonna, The Boys From Brazil by Ira Levin, and Silver Pigs by Lindsey Davis. The BookFinder.com Report Volume One data is comprised of BookFinder.com's analysis of aggregate trends for out-of-print book searches between July and December of 2002. The Report segments the most searched for books into ten categories: Arts & Music; Biography; Children's; Crafts & Hobbies; Fiction & Literature; History; Mysteries & Thrillers; Poetry; Popular Science & Technology; and Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror. "The out-of-print book trade continues quietly in thousands of used bookstores across the country. Readers are searching for out-of-print books for years, sometimes decades, after the desired titles were last mentioned in a print review or featured at an author signing. In this obscurity, almost entirely ignored by the media and absent from the public consciousness, the out-of-print book business has developed, thrived, stratified. This activity goes on under the radar, out of the spotlight," said Chatterjee. "We're changing that." Related Links: · BookFinder.com · The BookFinder Report Click here to return to the homepage of The Write NewsTM Click here to subscribe to our free weekly email newsletter. www.writenews.com Copyright © 1997-2010 by Writers Write, Inc. All Rights Reserved.