How are New York Times Best Sellers ranked?

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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

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