Thanks for reading. I'm pretty open about the fact that "bestseller" is relatively meaningless, but that I use it anyway.
Some people will say that you only have a "real" bestseller if NYT or WSJ say so. And, as described in the article, you could sell 3,000 99¢-cent ebooks in a week and be a WSJ bestseller. Well short of 11k or 8k for that matter. No guarantee you'd sell another book after that timeframe. Authors manipulate these lists all of the time. Especially NYT, which is curated.
Just about anybody can get a "bestseller" tag on Amazon. Is that somehow not a bestseller? It's an argument in semantics.
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Thanks for reading. I'm pretty open about the fact that "bestseller" is relatively meaningless, but that I use it anyway.
Some people will say that you only have a "real" bestseller if NYT or WSJ say so. And, as described in the article, you could sell 3,000 99¢-cent ebooks in a week and be a WSJ bestseller. Well short of 11k or 8k for that matter. No guarantee you'd sell another book after that timeframe. Authors manipulate these lists all of the time. Especially NYT, which is curated.
Just about anybody can get a "bestseller" tag on Amazon. Is that somehow not a bestseller? It's an argument in semantics.
I talk about it more in this article: https://writingcooperative.com/yes-your-amazon-best-seller-i...