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Originally Posted by Maggie Leung
Agreed that the NYT list is useful only if you know the limitations in its compilation, but I think if anyone sold 10 million books outside the list's parameters (or any such large number), it would be a publishing wonder. It would be a significant enough development that the compilers probably would find some way to note it, and if they thought it could happen again, they'd probably try to adjust the parameters of the survey.
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Granted, a very large indie selling might trigger such behavior... but I only put that number for the sake of argument. Smaller sales could be just as significant, and not catch the attention of the NYT compilers. The point is, they have no way to measure those numbers now, and there's no telling how long it will take for them to do so.