Someone gave that whole country a lobotomy holy smokes
The New York bestselling list is 100% rigged (especially for any politics related book). Publishers and authors arrange to have their books bought in bulk and then give them away as gifts.
It’s not that it’s rigged so much as it’s not really a contest to begin with. It’s more like vanity press, where people pay to have their writing published. Getting on the list is either about ego stroking or part of a larger marketing/communications strategy. The point is to get on the list, no one really cares how many copies a book sells.
Came here to say the same thing. Its all rigged. Completely meaningless list
I'm a co author of a bestselling Amazon book. Me and my friend wrote a short nonsense book and put it in a very niche category on the Amazon booklist like children's ancient chinese history or something, then set the price as low as possible. Then we bulk bought the e-book version and were best-selling in that genre in the past 24 hours, which gives us credit to say we authored a best seller.
We were kids at the time so we snuck pictures of big chungus and other cringey memes into the book.
In the end we made like 10 sales, clearly by people who fell for the bestseller status.
This image cuts off the qr code at the bottom :( can you repost?
ik, i was trying to make a joke re literacy that I can't recognise a book title page illustration from a QR code. Grandpa I can't click the book kinda gag. Didn't land ig
Hear me out though. Britney spears had a complicated legal battle with a corrupt court system. That one might actually be good.
Its tabloid trash and i 100% believe many people with nothing better to do bought and read it
If it helps I'm told that best seller lists are mostly gamed by the writer or publisher buying huge numbers of copies of the book in advance to boost them on to the list and the list has no meaningful relationship to what people are reading.
Even in an ideal case it would only tell you the interests of those people who buy new physical books.
A better analysis might be looking at library statistics. What books do people check out and what’s the average duration? What books are people requesting libraries to purchase? What is the average % of available copies checked out / average hold count?
That will tell you what normal people are reading and can’t be rigged by purchasing copies that no one ends up reading.
Do libraries publish these statistics or share them with one another?
That’s a great question. Idk. I believe many library systems do share information on some level in the US, but I doubt it is standardized or consistent. But librarians can be amazing so perhaps there is something.
I googled this a bit and found an article about it. Sounds like there isn’t much going on right now in the way of public libraries publishing data, but Seattle Public Library is trying to change it. Actually an interesting thing to think about.
"Yeah I love books!" But when you ask them what they read, it's always these things or maybe some Obama family biography
there's the conservative version of this that just read feelgood books about the American Revolution and the Pioneers and whatnot
the chance that she wrote that is nearly 0%
It's almost assuredly ghostwritten pablum
Only one person on this list actually wrote their book
Check the fiction section and you'll frequently see Ayn Rand pop into the top 50
this is probably true but I have to believe it'd be worse if it wasn't ghostwritten.
Not all that surprising. Celebrity tell-alls have always sold well and if it wasn't this it would be a bunch of YA fiction.
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