Actually, the best selling list isn't factual at all
By AmberLynn
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
United States
October 20, 2019 1:35pm CST
The New York Times best sellers list of books has nothing to do with any statistical facts. In fact, no best selling list does.
Even Amazon's best seller list is based solely on the sales from amazon. Not from any other place. Many other lists are just curated by editors or other staff and are based on what they think are noteworthy books.
Did you already know this?
I did not, but I suppose I should have suspected as much.
Source:Scribewriting.com
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@Alexandoy (65302)
• Cainta, Philippines
20 Oct 19
Hello, Amber. Even in the olden times, the biggest bookstore here draws the list of best sellers.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
20 Oct 19
Yes, and those lists are always based on peoples opinions and maybe not what has sold the most copies.
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@Alexandoy (65302)
• Cainta, Philippines
20 Oct 19
@ScribbledAdNauseum I remember in the olden days when they say best-selling I thought it meant the most sold. But then I learned it is not an accurate label when a friend started publishing books and selling it himself to that big bookstore.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
20 Oct 19
@Alexandoy Self Publishing has gotten easier but I imagine it wasn't easy at the time he was publishing?
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
21 Oct 19
So, the billboard charts are based off of opinion and not fact?
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
21 Oct 19
@LadyDuck I do not think it's fair for them to do things like that. It seems like that would lead to favoritism.
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@LadyDuck (502653)
• Italy
21 Oct 19
@ScribbledAdNauseum This is what I have read.
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@1creekgirl (44560)
• United States
20 Oct 19
I didn't know that. It's like a sign that reads "Voted Wilmington's Top Restaurant!" Yeah, but who exactly voted for it? Its employees?
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
20 Oct 19
Exactly! Newspapers and local news channels like to do that but we don't know how it was chosen. It could have been just a pull of names taken from a hat.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
20 Oct 19
I guess a lot of people do read them, but it seems that it's based more on the opinions of the staff of the newspaper.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
20 Oct 19
@JustBhem Not from what I read and understood. It seems like it's picked by a group of people and not so much a culmination of the sales figures.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
20 Oct 19
There's a website I go to every day to find out new facts like this. I usually scour through and tell everyone here the ones I liked the most. 
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
20 Oct 19
@Happy2BeMe I thought so. I know i like learning new things from fellow 'lotters anyway.
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
20 Oct 19
I knew that the Times list could be manipulated.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
20 Oct 19
I mean, it makes sense, doesn't it?
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@samysotelo18 (7743)
• Mexico
20 Oct 19
I didin't know that but whenever i try to ready about it I think i never get concrete info
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
21 Oct 19
@samysotelo18 Yes, I agree with you on that.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
20 Oct 19
I do not really look to the best selling list. The only time I do this is when I go to amazon's free e-book list.
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@samysotelo18 (7743)
• Mexico
21 Oct 19
@ScribbledAdNauseum oh I seeee...I still think It's very biased
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