![]() ![]() Seuss outsells most new books every week, but you don’t see that on the list because it’s a backlist book.įrom what you’ve seen, how would you explain what went down with Handbook for Mortals? The New York Times also doesn’t have backlist books, just new releases. So the USA Today list is very sales-based, whereas the Times one isn’t. It’s not the same as the USA Today list, which pulls from BookScan directly and is literally just the point of scale through BookScan. Again, no one knows what their formula is - they’ll tell you it’s not necessarily just based on strict sales, but also momentum and all these other intangible factors. The Times gets reports from those stores every week who tell them how many copies of each book they’ve sold. We don’t technically know which stores report, but it’s sort of an open secret in the industry which stores are reporting, which is how these people were able to game the system - by figuring out which stores were reporting and making some phone calls there to make it work for them. They track book outlets across the country, including the big ones like Barnes & Noble, but also independent booksellers, which is how they weight their list. They have their secret formula about how they put it all together. So how does the New York Times best-seller list work, to the best of our knowledge? I know they try to keep it a little secret… ![]()
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