Most Collectible AuthorsMost collectible authors on the web include self-published writers. Two self-published authors - Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams, who co-wrote a fantasy novel called The Highfield Mole - currently rank alongside JK Rowling and Stephen King as the writers most in demand from rare book collectors on the Internet. AbeBooks.com analyzed sales data from 2007 and compiled an 'author collectibility index' based on sales of books priced more than $500. After being tipped as the next Harry Potter, demand for The Highfield Mole reached its zenith last summer when it was republished with a new title, Tunnels. Collectors snapped up scarce copies of the self-published edition and prices quickly rose until a copy sold for $1,900 on AbeBooks.com. On-going demand for signed Harry Potter books means Rowling tops the index although few first editions of her debut book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, reach the market. An autographed Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows sold for $5,500 just after its release last July. The 'collectibility index' is a who's who of literature, including Austen, Cervantes, Dante, Darwin, Dickens, Joyce, Orwell and Verne. Khaled Hosseini finds himself between Harper Lee and Ernest Hemingway because signed first editions of The Kite Runner now change hands for more than $1,000 on the Internet.
Most Collectible Authors on AbeBooks in 2007 (based on sales of books priced over $500)
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