It seems that so many books at a bookstore claims to be a New York Times Best Seller. I’m guessing there are many lists and that’s really not a ranking of how many books are actually sold. How does all of this work behind the scenes?
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It’s not a ranking in like “good book” it’s based PURELY on sales.
And the “best sellers” lists are broken up into dozens of different genres. So like the best selling romance book and the best selling mystery book are not competing with one another.
And, they measure it every week (pretty much). So typically books just need to sell a few thousand copies in a week and bing bang boom it’s a best seller
It is based on self reported numbers by the bookstores and wholesalers that they ask for data. It is not scientific or based on actual sales. The NYT will not say how they actually determine the best sellers and it is widely thought that they juggle the numbers as they see fit.
It is not ranking. It is just a list of “best seller” titles without a rank number. There are criterias to join the list and it is mainly the sale figure of a book. So that’s how you heard people buy a lot of their own book to give away in order to pump the numbers up, then join the list, and that’s when they actually have better chance of selling them.
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