Re: [ha-Safran] statistics on Jewish book publishing in US

[This post self-edited with fire-extinguisher, but there may be some hot spots. Beware] Between 17-18 of these titles would be unsuitable, unacceptable or offensive in any Jewish library. This is not counting Kabbalah center productions and some other fairly venal narishkeit. The list is updat

Re: [ha-Safran] statistics on Jewish book publishing in US

Hi again, I did find the Jewish best sellers on Amazon. I first had to go to the best sellers list and then on the left was a list of categories. I started with religion and then clicked on Jewish to get to:

Re: [ha-Safran] statistics on Jewish book publishing in US

Here is an interesting point regarding sales of books with Jewish content. I know that Hadassah has a list of top books sold by Jewish content, and we found the list is different from the books that we sell at a Judaica store where I work in Seattle. We did contact someone, and we were told t

Re: [ha-Safran] statistics on Jewish book publishing in US

Jewish Book World has said that it reviews between 600-700 books anually, and more than 400 new titles are submitted each year as candidates for the National Jewish Book Awards. I, too, have been looking for statistics on Jewish book publishing, and I think I've posted requests on hasafran.