![]() Sadly, buying your way to the top is another means of getting on the NYT bestseller list. OTHER BESTSELLER LISTSīarnes & Noble (BAN), Publishers Weekly (PBW), The Boston Globe (BOG), USA Today (USA), The Denver Post (DPO), The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), The Los Angeles Times (LAT), The Washington Post (WaPo), and The American Booksellers Association ABA IndieBound (ABA). However, sales fluctuate pretty quickly, which is why it doesn’t seem that it, or any other source, can ever be 100 percent accurate. Of the above, BookScan seems to be the most reliable. The signing feature is a unique way to connect with readers: ******************** AuthorgraphĪuthorgraph allows readers to have their eBooks signed by authors while also allowing authors to get weekly emails about their books’ absolute Amazon ranking, not by category, which makes this site less in-depth on the breakdown. Storybox features software compatible with Microsoft that gives an elaborate breakdown of sales from many outlets, making them available to export for your records. Sales Rank Express is an extremely fast short-term tool that offers minute-by-minute checking for Amazon sales. Rankforest lets you compare sales performance historically, view competing titles and rank in correlation, read reviews and blogs, and track charts from several online retailers. They provide a specific breakdown as only eBooks are tracked through the eBook Tracker site. They get their information from Amazon, though they are a separate entity from Amazon (although a participant of the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program). eBook TrackerĪs the name might suggest, this site tracks eBook sales. So if publishing on Amazon, it looks at those if Barnes & Noble, it finds you on NOOK Press. OTHER SOURCES BookTrackrīookTrackr tracks your book’s specific sales. On the BookTrackr FAQ page, note that sales are pulled by looking at places your book is sold. They have also introduced Amazon Charts, which ranks the top 20 most sold and most read books of the week (again, going by actual sales rather than anticipated). The NYT numbers are based on anticipated sales for the week, while Amazon’s numbers are based on actual sales, which are determined by the hour.Īmazon’s numbers are strictly based on which books have the highest sales. To find Amazon bestsellers, see the Amazon Sales page on the Author Central feature, which pulls from BookScan. ![]() It may come as a revelation to some that Amazon uses a different system: it tracks actual sales by the hour. Northeastern also developed a model that would predict sales over time based off the first couple weeks of sales. ![]() In December, for instance, when many buy books as gifts, a substantial amount of additional units would have to be sold to land on the bestseller list. It says that during certain months the book may have to sell X number of units to make the list, given outside circumstances. This article describes a study conducted by scientists at Northeastern University. ![]() The NYT recently released an article dealing with frequently asked questions about their bestseller lists. However, we can safely assume there’s more to it, which is explored in the article below. (No big secret: indies cannot carry every or even a majority of new book titles to determine sales.) And, it focuses largely on big-name bookstores rather than small indie stores. Keep in mind that the NYT only tracks sales numbers weekly. (Top publishers know the bookstores they target and try to make sure a lot of samples go to those stores.) The NYT does not take actual sales into account, only how many books were shipped to those particular stores. The New York Times receives its info from Nielsen BookScan, which collects book sales data from select bookstores. If, like me, you wonder why, the answer is as simple as it is enigmatic: Because there is no universal system, company, or site that tracks all book sales. It’s no secret that the book industry has long been secretive about how bestsellers are actually chosen. ![]() WHEN IS A BESTSELLER REALLY A BESTSELLER? ![]()
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