Bestseller lists just mean the most sold and usually has no connection to reading satisfaction. Oprah says "I am reading XX now" and the Oprah-sheep immediately go out and buy XX. Voila! Instant bestseller. But how many of them actually read the book completely to the end and enjoy it? Grisham or King or Patterson put out a new book, and all of their fans buy a copy. Voila! Instant bestseller. But is it a good book or one that wasn't really worth buying? A NYT book reviewer says "You MUST read this book" and all of those who follow the NYT Book Section rush out to buy it. Voila! Instant bestseller. But how many of them actually read the book completely to the end and enjoy it?
Most of my favorite authors have never made and will never make the NYT Best Seller list. I don't check the list with any regularity (let me just say that I do like the NYT, think it's a great newspaper) because most of the books that show up on the fiction lists, I don't want to read. I don't want to read any of the self-help books that always appear on the non-fiction lists. So the fact that ebooks are going to be listed is relatively meaningless to me because I won't be using it to search for books to read.
I can, however, appreciate the fact that by giving ebooks their own Best Seller listing, they are validating ebooks and making ebooks come of age as a legitimate source of reading material.
If I want to find the ebooks that people ACTUALLY are reading though, I'll check the listings on the Dark Net. Except for the people who do the monthly bulk upload of ebooks, folks tend to post the books that they enjoy reading and want to share with others - not books that others
should read or
must read just to follow a trend.
