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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
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The Times’s methodology (which you can find at the bottom of this page) samples sales from a diverse range of retail outlets, a measure specifically intended to weed out books whose sales surge is a product of artificial demand. Books that benefited from bulk sales are supposed to have a dagger icon next to them to denote that fact. Yet when Hsieh’s book debuted on the list in 2009, it had no such symbol.
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I'm still unclear about the terminology. If the retail outlets are the stores that sell books to the general public, how do 'bulk sales' fit in?