From Amazon:
https://amzn.to/2qx3Llw
Via:
https://the-digital-reader.com/2017/...t-seller-list/
For those tbat care:
Quote:
Amazon has launched a best-seller list called Amazon Charts.
The retailer has distilled its genre and category best-seller lists into a quartet of lists of the top-selling and most-read books (fiction and non-fiction get different lists).
The lists reflect the activities of Amazon customers across all types of books: print, digital, and audio. Each entry will include a buy button (and a "read now" button) so consumers can find out more.
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More at Nate's.
I guess they got tired of the APub and KDP select titles being blocked off lists. And with the NYT kicking so many books out of consideration they saw a need.
More interesting than what is selling, in what people are actually reading in digital. They have parallel lists for ebooks and audio listing sales and *active* reads. And guess who's filling a quarter of the top slots?
The formatting is appropriately function-rich with buy and read buttons (of course) and for tradpub titles they now not listauthor and publisher but also yhe agent! Bragging rights for all.
It also makes it easy to make out indie titles.
Edit: here's the link to the Amazon press release.
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix....cle&ID=2273973
Note the headline:
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Introducing Amazon Charts – A Bestseller List for What People are Really Reading and Buying
A reimagined bestseller list that shares how we read today
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 18, 2017-- (NASDAQ:AMZN)—Amazon today launched Amazon Charts, a reimagined weekly bestseller list that shares which books are being read the most and which books have sold the most across all formats each week. The Top 20 Most Read is the first ever bestseller list to measure the books millions of Amazon.com customers are really reading and listening to by looking at the average number of daily Kindle readers and Audible listeners. The Top 20 Most Sold list ranks the most books sold, pre-ordered or borrowed each week from Amazon.com, Audible.com and Amazon Books. Amazon Charts include data across all reading formats – whether books are bought or borrowed, listened to or read – to accurately reflect how readers are really reading and buying books today. To see which books made the inaugural Top 20 Most Read and Top 20 Most Sold fiction and nonfiction Amazon Charts, visit: www.amazon.com/charts.
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