Will winning book prizes make you a millionaire

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Will winning book prizes make you a millionaire?

• Richard Knight

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Book Buying 1990 style
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Book Buying 2000 style!
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How a PoS transaction record is expanded?
Customer purchase
From shop till system onto the Internet
ISBN, Quantity, Price
From Internet into raw data database
Bibliographic data added
Aggregated sales data with expanded sales record
useful to the trade
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Anthony Awards (mystery) Aventis Prizes for
Science Books (non-fiction) BBC Four Samuel
Johnson Prize for Non-fiction Betty Trask Prize
and Awards Booker Prize Bram Stoker Awards
(horror) British Academy Book Prize
(humanities/social sciences) British Book
Awards Carnegie Medal Children's Literary Prizes
Commonwealth Writers Prize Crime Writers
Association Awards David Cohen British
Literature Prize in English Language Edgar Allan
Poe Awards (mystery) Forward Poetry Prizes Gay,
Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Book Awards
Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize Granta Best of
Young British Novelists Griffin Poetry Prize
Guardian Fiction Prize Hawthornden Prize Heywood
Hill Literary Prize Hugo Awards for Science
Fiction International Einhard Prize for
Biography   International IMPAC Dublin Literary
Award (fiction) Irish Times Literature
Prizes James Tait Black Memorial Prize Kiriyama
Pacific Rim Book Prize Lambda Literary Awards
Mail on Sunday John Llewellyn Rhys Prize Man
Booker Prize (fiction) National Book Awards 
National Book Critics Circle Awards Nebula
Awards for Science Fiction Nobel Prize for
Literature Notable Books Orange Prize for
fiction PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Prix
Goncourt (French prose) Pulitzer Prizes Samuel
Johnson Prize Somerset Maugham Awards Sunday
Express Fiction Award T. S. Eliot Prize W H Smith
Book Awards Whitbread Prize William Hill Sports
Book Yorkshire Post Book Award
Just some of the many book prizes
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2003 Booker Prize Shortlist UKConsumer
purchases by week (UK)
Winner announced
1,500 week on week growth !
Shortlist announced
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What follows the prize is essential
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Uplift in sales once shortlist announcedFigure
in ( ) is lifetime sales before shortlist
announced
(1,404)
(2,589)
(2,044)
(3,432)
(7,784)
(4,866)
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The Publicity Effect.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Paperback editions X2
British Book Awards X2
Whitbread X 2
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Consumer sales of The Curious Incident of the Dog
in the Night-time
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Sales of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the
Night-time per million of population
Whitbread Prizes
Christmas
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Dog in the Night-time (Dog in) compared to Da
Vinci Code (Da Vinci) by country. Sales per
million population
Christmas
Prizes
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The top 10 Bestselling Fiction titles over the
last 22 months (UK)
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2004 Booker Prize Shortlist