How many books Sold to be a New York Times Best Seller?
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| About the Best Sellers A version of this Best Sellers report appears in the October 9, 2011 issue of The New York Times Book Review. Rankings on weekly lists reflect sales for the week ending September 24, 2011. Rankings reflect sales reported by vendors offering a wide range of general interest titles. The sales venues for print books include independent book retailers; national, regional and local chains; online and multimedia entertainment retailers; supermarkets, university, gift and discount department stores; and newsstands. E-book rankings reflect sales from leading online vendors of e-books in a variety of popular e-reader formats. E-book sales are tracked for fiction and general nonfiction titles. E-book sales for advice & how-to books, children's books and graphic books will be tracked at a future date. Titles are included regardless of whether they are published in both print and electronic formats or just one format. E-books available exclusively from a single vendor will be tracked at a future date. The universe of print book dealers is well established, and sales of print titles are statistically weighted to represent all outlets nationwide. The universe of e-book publishers and vendors is rapidly emerging, and until the industry is settled sales of e-books will not be weighted. Among the categories not actively tracked at this time are: perennial sellers, required classroom reading, textbooks, reference and test preparation guides, journals, workbooks, calorie counters, shopping guides, comics, crossword puzzles and self-published books. The appearance of a ranked title reflects the fact that sales data from reporting vendors has been provided to The Times and has satisfied commonly accepted industry standards of universal identification (such as ISBN13 and EISBN13 codes). Publishers and vendors of all ranked titles conformed in timely fashion to The New York Times Best Seller Lists requirement to allow for independent corroboration of sales for that week. Publisher credits for e-books are listed under the corporate publishing name instead of by publisher's division. Sales of both print books and e-books are reported confidentially to The New York Times. The Best Seller Lists are prepared by the News Surveys and Election Analysis Department of The New York Times. Royalty Share, a firm that provides accounting services to publishers, is assisting The Times in its corroboration of e-book sales. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report receiving bulk orders. |
| Always wondered how they come up with that list and others... |
guest56 wrote: About the Best Sellers Sales of both print books and e-books are reported confidentially to The New York Times. The Best Seller Lists are prepared by the News Surveys and Election Analysis Department of The New York Times. Royalty Share, a firm that provides accounting services to publishers, is assisting The Times in its corroboration of e-book sales. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above it. A dagger (†) indicates that some retailers report receiving bulk orders. Thanks Guest56 for the good information! Can I pick your brain if you happen to know? Or if anyone knows? So they keep the amount of books sold confidential? Is it just the highest amount of books sold each week and you don't have to reach a certain quantity of sold books to be on the list? I had always just assumed that a certain quantity was reached to be on that list like hundreds of thousands or more. I was wondering if a book has been on the New York Times Best Seller List is it assumable that they've reached sales of a certain minimum amount? Probably how many copies in print form and ebook form have been sold? |
it's comprised of the best sellers per week. you probably got these ideas as some publishers will advertise 500k or 1mil sold or on ny times best sellers list for 26 weeks or longer as examples.  |
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