Thread: Why aren't e-books included in best seller lists?
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Old 07-20-2012, 04:24 PM   #10
Andrew H.
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Originally Posted by elemenoP View Post
Bestseller lists come from booksellers (retail sales) not publishers (wholesale sales). I didn't realize that Amazon doesn't release sales information. I wonder where the New York Times gets data for ebook sales, then? Anyway, you can see Amazon's own bestseller lists on their site. Maybe the New York Times is scraping the data that way?

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I would assume that the NY Times just gets the info from the publishers. This isn't how it works with paper books, for various reasons, but I think it's the only plausible way for this to work without getting info directly from Amazon, B&N, etc.
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