I can't give them exactly what they expect or
copy other bestsellers, that won't satisfy them.
Not exact matches
True internally for Amazon and
other retailers, who make more money in total from books that sell two or three
copies a day than from
bestsellers, it's also true for broader resources on the internet.
Printed by a small publishing company known for
other scientific masterpieces such as The Psychology of the Simpsons and You Do Not Talk About Fight Club, Campbell's book quickly hit the word - of - mouth circuit and skyrocketed towards
bestseller status, with sales exceeding half a million
copies to date.
And then there will be
others who say, «I can't believe my book only sold three
copies, I'm an Amazon
bestseller, something's fishy here!»
According to the highly involved metrics from one specific title, PW discovered, «By studying the print
bestseller list for a two - week period, we were able to determine that a title in Amazon's top five averages 1,094 print
copies sold across all channels, including
other retailers, on a typical day.
The self - publishing aspect, for me, only factors in as a sales tool in one extreme or the
other — that is, if it hasn't sold many
copies and is «like new» or, if it's sold so many
copies it's worth the investment (as happened with the self - published book The Shack, which sold a million
copies and reached # 1 on the NY Times
bestseller list, before selling another five million
copies since Hachette picked it up for mainstream publication.)
The novel sold more than 10 million
copies in the U.S., and Hosseini has since published two
other bestsellers.
I've edited New York Times
bestsellers and
other titles that have sold millions of
copies.
After all, the NYT
bestseller list is based (so they tell us) on anonymous and supposedly widely sourced data from a lot of bookstores, and wholesales who retail to
other outlets... And has: 1) reputedly been cooked before 2) As we don't know the methodology is hard to check — but we know some very popular books never make it, and books which don't sell that many
copies (17K hardback was reputed to get you onto the extend list, according to a friend who got there on that) 3) We know Bookscan data is pretty close to GIGO — so it's hard to see where the NYT would get better data.
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