12/29/2004

Amazon top ACW sellers, 2004

How this list was made: Please see yesterday's B&N list. The methodology is the same.

Notes: Number 10 on this list is a juvenile nonfiction title. Number 6 looks like an Amazon glitch, given the low number of total (non-Amazon) sales estimated from Ingram figures. It may be ranked there by virtue of ordering rate.

For what it's worth:

(1) American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies (1)
by Michael W. Kauffman (1) / Random House (Nov 2004)
Amazon.com Sales Rank in Books: #709
Total 2004 sales estimate for this edition: 11,100

(2) Freedom Rising: Washington in the Civil War (13)
by Ernest B. Furgurson / Knopf (Nov 2004)
Amazon.com Sales Rank in Books: #4,050
Total 2004 sales estimate for this edition: 3,000

(3) Civil War, Volume 1-3 Box Set (15)
by Shelby Foote / Vintage (Nov 1986)
Amazon.com Sales Rank in Books: #3,457
Total 2004 sales estimate for this edition: 3,100

(4) The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War (19)
by Thomas Dilorenzo / Three Rivers (Dec 2003)
Amazon.com Sales Rank in Books: #5,562
Total 2004 sales estimate for this edition: 6,800

(5) Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era (Oxford History of the United States) (23)
by James M. McPherson / Oxford (Oct 2003)
Amazon.com Sales Rank in Books: #5,299
Total 2004 sales estimate for this edition: 10,800

(6) The Oxford Atlas of the Civil War (28)
by Steven E. Woodworth, et al / Oxford (Nov 2004)
Amazon.com Sales Rank in Books: #16,363
Total 2004 sales estimate for this edition: 900

(7) Civil War Trivia And Fact Book: Unusual and Often Overlooked Facts About America's Civil War (34)
by Webb Garrison / Rutledge Hill (May 1992)
Amazon.com Sales Rank in Books: #78,441
Total 2004 sales estimate for this edition: 2,400

(8) Stars in Their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1863 (41)
by Shelby Foote / Modern Library (Jun 1994)
Amazon.com Sales Rank in Books: #25,741
Total 2004 sales estimate for this edition: 2,800

(9) Atlas Of The Civil War, Month By Month: Major Battles And Troop Movements (47)
by Mark Swanson, Jacqueline D. Langley / University of Georgia (Dec 2004)
Amazon.com Sales Rank in Books: #31,600
Total 2004 sales estimate for this edition: 6,700

(10) Behind Rebel Lines: The Incredible Story of Emma Edmonds, Civil War Spy (57)
by Seymour Reit / Gulliver (Aug 2001)
Amazon.com Sales Rank in Books: #60,939
Total 2004 sales estimate for this edition: 14,000