1. Prepared By ~
Kankana Ghosh
Ananya Roy
Aditi Roy

2. What is a BestSeller?
• It is a book
• Is identified as extremely
popular by the publishing
industry
• This is done based on book
trade figures
• Is published by
magazines,bookstore chains

3.  What
is a bestseller?
 Types
of bestsellers
 Era of bestsellers- early, mid, modern and
post modern
 Top
three bestsellers of India
 Trend of bestsellers
 Conclusion

4. • Fiction
• Non-fiction

5. Bestsellers-the early era
Maximum number of copies printed were small.
Maximum number of copies printed were small.
The highly popular books were mainly religious.
The highly popular books were mainly religious.
Only short books became bestsellers
Only short books became bestsellers. .
The numbers printed and sold were low.
The numbers printed and sold were low.

6.  One form of extended
fictional prose narrative.
Pamela – 1st English
novel in 1740
An epistolary novel by
Samuel Richardson

7. Continued….
John Bunyan
John The Apostle

8. Bestsellers-the middle ages
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9. Popular Best-sellers of this era

10. Two phases - Modern & Contemporary
Divided into prewar, inter-war, postwar period.
Mainly fiction genre in the former.
Novels notably flourished in the inter-war
period
Postwar-Evolution of classical science fiction.

11. Popular bestsellers of modern era

12. POST-MODERNISM
 Major characteristics:
 playfulness with language
 mixture of high art and popular culture
 experiment in the form of novel
 interest in meta-fiction

13. Renowned Bestsellers of Postmodern era

14. Top 3 Best-sellers of India
Preeti Shenoy
Chetan Bhagat
Walter Issacson

15. Mostly read-genre of books
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20
15
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SALE

16. Conclusion

17. “Some books are to be tasted ,others to
be swallowed, few to be chewed and
digested” – Francis Bacon
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