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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Considering the (lack of) quality of a lot of the BPH NYT "bestsellers" and the ways some of those titles get on the list . . .
The next milestone I'm looking for is a new-publishing title hitting number one on the NYT list. I figure it'll happen by next summer. (Just a WAG, of course.  ) |
Why the happy face about a book being on a list you dissed?
Reading
Wikipedia, it seems that there are repeated attempts to game the list for which I wouldn't blame the Times. When they think sales are being hyped by bulk purchases, they mark the title with a dagger.
I'm guessing there is an unstated minimum price. The current Kindle #8 bestseller, the novel
War Brides, selling for $1.99, is not among the 25 titles on the current Times eBook fiction list. Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned that in case it starts yet another round of anti-Times polemics, but, well, there it is. Given Amazon's history of selectively releasing sales data, it may be that Kindle sales aren't fully considered. Maybe Amazon itself doesn't want cheap titles to rise too high on list.
As a reader, I would look for the milestone of them giving a book both a Sunday and weekday review, and both be a rave.