Bestseller Lists
By Jerry D. Simmons | May 13th, 2010 | 2 Comments » (Click to add yours!)

At this early stage in the development of the eBook market, sales do not in any way reflect or have any impact on bestseller lists for the print edition. Take into account the fact that eBooks of major titles are not released until several months after the hardcover and you can see why. The release of a trade paperback several months after a hardcover will not have any impact on bestseller lists for the hardcover edition. Bestseller lists for print formats do not include sales from corresponding formats. Trade paper sales do not impact hardcover sales and so on.  

The question will be, if a trade paperback and eBook are released simultaneously will both editions count toward bestseller placement and my guess is they will not. Simply because the players in creating bestseller lists are slow to change and since they’ve been putting lists together for ages, it is doubtful they will change anything in the near future. I suspect that sales by format will continue to reflect only that particular format and none other. At some point there will be a recognized bestseller list for eBooks at it will probably come from one of the leading newspapers.

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