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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
Is this supposed to be a trick question?
Here is a question for you:
Do you seriously believe that the books on the NYT bestseller list are the best selling books?
Sure, why not?  |
Actually they publicly announced the NYT list is a promotional tool *only* for recent releases back in august 2015 after a kids' book a year old, through growing word of mouth, hit the list for several weeks.
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Paul hopes that the new lists will help draw potential readers to new books. “I think in this new reconfiguration, you’ll see a lot more newly published hardcover fiction,” she said.
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Easiest to find spin:
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/...ler-lists.html
(Edit: there are other more detailed "explanations" from the following month, where they explained they manually dropped books and moved them around to highlight "meaningful" books and that new releases could be swamped by older books).
So, yes, NYT "Bestsellers" are only new, because they exclude all others.
The lists exists to tell people what to buy, not to document what they actually buy.