Every week Smashwords authors are
hitting bestsellers lists there, and every week you'll find Smashwords titles prominently featured.
Not exact matches
There are plenty of indie authors who
hit bestseller lists without them.
If you want to be a
bestseller then you may want to talk to authors who've
hit that
list or check out their websites, or facebook pages, and figure out how they got
there.
See,
there is a world of difference between someone buying 10,000 books and dumping them into a landfill just to
hit a
bestseller's
list so they can command better speaking fees or consulting gigs, from the hard working speakers who can genuinely sell a lot of books at the bulk sales level and get no recognition for it.
But
there's been no one huge book promotion
hit — no, not even an appearance on «Oprah» — that can guarantee an author will sell a specific number of books on a given day, or that the number of books sold will be enough to catapult the book to the
bestseller lists.
And then
there were the Chicken Soup for the Soul authors who to start out gave away tons physical books to everyone they met, and eventually also
hit the
bestseller lists.
Publishers» Marketplace says that
there are additional provisions that require a book to be sold at $ 12.99 if it
hits the NYT
Bestseller list.
There are simple scams that mainstream publishers can use to make a mediocre book
hit the New York Times
Bestseller's
lists.