Thread: Amazon Charts is a different kind of "bestseller" list
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Old 05-19-2017, 11:24 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
Authors in particular get screwed by the NYT rules.
Back in 2015 they openly told PW that their objective was to promote new releases so a children's book that took a year to ramp up its sales rate via word of mouth to where it was outselling most new releases week to week wasn't worthy of their list. So they not only didn't list it (USAToday did), they changed the official rules.

Happens all the time. They openly admit they arbitrarilly move titles up and down or add or delete titles at will. Their list isn't about what readers are buying but about what they want people to buy.

A book can sell 100,000 copies and never make their list while a one week wonder selling 10000 gets celebrated.

That's why USAToday got into the list game...
This is not new. Sheila Hailey wrote about how many copies each of her husband's books took to make the NYT book list.
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