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Originally Posted by JSWolf
It means that there are not enough people who buy Amazon exclusives to get them in the NYT list. The NYT's list is one a lot of people browse and buy books they see there they may be interested in.
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A more accurate statement would probably be "that there are not enough sales of the particular APub titles through the channels that the NYT takes account of in compiling its lists". For physical sales that means a small selected sample of bookstores, most of whom no doubt boycott Amazon titles. For ebooks it means data from a company called Royalty Share which provides information to publishers. I don't know whether they even count APub sales. Also, of course, the NYT does not release information about how they compile their lists, which they regard as a trade secret. Personally, I have little faith in the integrity of the process.
As for the recommendation, thank you. I read a lot of WWII books many years ago, and these days am simply not interested in them. However, on the strength of the recommendations here and its availability in KU, I'm going to give it a try.