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Originally Posted by avantman42
Yesterday I listened to Open Book on Radio 4 (available on iPlayer, at least in the UK). There's a section about e-books and best seller lists (from around 09:30 to 16:30).
Apparently e-books aren't included in best seller lists, at least in the UK, because Amazon have the lion's share of the e-book market, and won't tell anyone how many Kindle books they sell. The program seems to suggest that if Amazon don't release sales figures, then there's no way around that. Presumably, though, the publishers know how many books they have sold, so why can't traditionally published e-books be included in the lists? |
I'm assuming that since all the books on the best-seller lists are available in e-book format (with a few possible exceptions) that you are talking about books that are released exclusively as e-books.
That kind of implies self publishing or very small publishing house with fairly minor sales.
Do you know of any exceptions that likely
should be on the list?