With the film based on Gayle Forman’s If I Stay hitting theaters this Friday, the novel sits at the top of the Ebook Best-Seller List for a third straight week. It elbowed aside the previous incumbent to the No. 1 spot, John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, which stayed there for a twelve-week stretch around the time a hotly anticipated movie adaptation was released earlier this summer.
The relationship between best-selling ebooks and media tie-ins, especially feature films, isn’t difficult to understand. Ten of the top-25 titles this week are tied to film or TV projects at various stages of completion–in production, nearing release or recently launched.
It’s now beginning to appear that TV could pack as much punch when it comes to boosting ebook sales as film does. A series based on Diana Gabaldon’s eight-part Outlander novels debuted on the Starz network last week, helping the ebook cling to the No. 2 position for a second week running.
The average price of a best-selling ebook dipped slightly to $7.77, down from $7.99 last week despite a steady overall climb over the past eight months.
Top 25 Ebook Best-Sellers
Week Ending 8/14/14
| Rank* | Title | Author | Publisher | Price** | Change |
| 1 (1) | If I Stay | Gayle Forman | Penguin Random House | $ 4.99 | – |
| 2 (2) | Outlander: A Novel | Diana Gabaldon | Penguin Random House | $ 4.99 | – |
| 3 (4) | Big Little Lies | Liane Moriarty | Penguin Random House | $ 10.99 | +1 |
| 4 (3) | The Fault in Our Stars | John Green | Penguin Random House | $ 4.99 | -1 |
| 5 (5) | The Goldfinch: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction) | Donna Tartt | Hachette | $ 6.99 | – |
| 6 (8) | Divergent | Veronica Roth | HarperCollins | $ 4.99 | +2 |
| 7 (7) | Not a Drill: A Jack Reacher Short Story (Kindle Single) | Lee Child | Penguin Random House | $ 1.99 | – |
| 8 (6) | Gone Girl: A Novel | Gillian Flynn | Penguin Random House | $ 8.52 | -2 |
| 9 (10) | Where She Went (If I Stay Book 2) | Gayle Forman | Penguin Random House | $ 4.99 | +1 |
| 10 (9) | Insurgent (Divergent Book 2) | Veronica Roth | HarperCollins | $ 6.99 | -1 |
| 11 (15) | Allegiant (Divergent Book 3) | Veronica Roth | Harper Collins | $ 6.99 | +4 |
| 12 (12) | Orphan Train: A Novel | Christina Baker Kline | HarperCollins | $ 6.99 | – |
| 13 (14) | The Husband’s Secret | Liane Moriarty | Penguin Random House | $ 9.99 | -1 |
| 14 (17) | Ugly Love: A Novel | NOT ALLOWED | Simon & Schuster | $ 7.59 | +3 |
| 15 (13) | Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption | Laura Hillenbrand | Penguin Random House | $ 9.12 | -2 |
| 16 (n/a) | Vain: Part Two (Vain Book 2) | Deborah Bladon | Self-published | $ 0.99 | New |
| 17 (16) | Invisible | James Patterson; David Ellis | Hachette | $ 8.99 | -1 |
| 18 (n/a) | Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander Book 2) | Diana Gabaldon | Penguin Random House | $ 4.99 | New |
| 19 (18) | The Heist: A Novel (Gabriel Allon Book 14) | Daniel Silva | HarperCollins | $ 13.99 | -1 |
| 20 (11) | Fifty Shades Freed: Fifty Shades Trilogy Book 3 | E L James | Penguin Random House | $ 7.99 | -9 |
| 21 (20) | The Book of Life: A Novel (All Souls Trilogy) | Deborah Harkness | Penguin Random House | $ 11.99 | -1 |
| 22 (21) | All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel | Anthony Doerr | Simon & Schuster | $ 10.99 | -1 |
| 23 (n/a) | Act of War: A Thriller | Brad Thor | Simon & Schuster | $ 12.74 | -4 |
| 24 (25) | Night Moves | Nora Roberts | HarperCollins | $ 5.38 | +1 |
| 25 (n/a) | The Divergent Series Complete Collection | Veronica Roth | HarperCollins | $ 14.99 | New |
* Previous week’s list rank in parentheses.
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