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Originally Posted by HarryT
All of that seems entirely reasonable - it's a list of what's currently selling well, not a summation of cumulative sales. The pop charts work in exactly the same way, and for the same reasons.
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No, no, no.
That's not what they are doing.
The books they excluded (and are purposefully excluding) have high weekly sales *rates*, higher than the listed ones. They just happen to have been published months or years before. So if a book builds up its sales rate over time, say by word of mouth and great reviews, to 100k per week it is excluded but if it sells 50,000 in one week and everybody who actually reads it hates it,it gets listed. Because it is new and they "want to draw attention to new releases". Their words, over at Publishers Weekly.
When they kicked the Rowling books off the list they were outselling everything else, day by day, every day, not just cumulatively. So it is *not* at all like the pop music charts. (Which have their own set of issues.)