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Originally Posted by marketsmart
wow 500,000 sold gets you number 1 on the best sellers list...
no wonder this country is in such turmoil..
no one reads anymore and when they do read, its total shit...
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Depending on the week as few as 30-40K sold can get you on the top of the best seller list. If the publisher has a book that they know will sell around 30K in its first week they will wait to release it for a week when those types of sales figures can get you in the #1 spot because that spot gives you a ton of free publicity.
Another trick they like to do is push the book hard to book clubs a certain other types of stores. These books count as sold books even if they don't actually end up in a reader's hands for a while. If they can sell a bunch to book clubs and get a bunch sold to smaller independent book stores they can take the top spot and may not actually have a single book that has left the shelf and been bought by a reader.