The Best Selling Books on AALBC.com for July/August 2016

The categories for our Bestsellers Lists include Fiction, Nonfiction, Children's Books, and Poetry.  

Unfortunately we did not sell enough poetry to fill the category for this period.  Historically, poetry books have sold strongly on this site. Certainly one of the reasons poetry book sales are down is, despite 1000's of pages of content related to poetry, there is simply a lot less engagement on the site connected to poetry.  I have not published a poetry book reviews in sometime, the poetry forum is not active, and while poets never really took ads out on AALBC.com, ad sales to poets is probably at an all-time low.  This is too bad, because 2016 may be an all-time high for page views on AALBC.com.

The only exception is poetry book for children (which I categorize under "Children's Books"); there are book in the series "Poetry for Young People," the book covering Langston Hughes' work sold well enough to make our bestsellers list.

Novels on Go On Girl! Book Club's reading list are also prominent on our bestsellers list.  Commissions AALBC.com earns from sales of books on Go On Girl!'s reading list are contributed to their scholarship fund, so they have been instrumental in driving sales for those books through AALBC.com.  Similarly Brown Girls Books, dominates the fiction list with several bestselling titles due largely to direct support of AALBC.com.

Readers, publishers, and authors all win in this scenario--reminiscent of the early days of the web.  Prospects for the Black Book Ecosystem are promising!