On one level, the definition of a "bestseller" is simple: it is a book that appears on a list because it has sold the greatest number of copies in a given, usually short, time. How many copies a ...

When picking out a book at any bookstore — from Barnes & Noble to an indie bookseller — readers are familiar with the words ...

(For more details, here is a complete breakdown of my Amazon bestsellers.) What does this mean? It means that my books, because of the rankings they received at one point on Amazon, were popular ...

The introduction of the fourth format—e-books—disrupted the way bestseller lists are compiled ... that we don’t have a consensus [about the meaning of the term],” said one agent, who ...

and of what bestseller lists really are and what they mean in a new age. As books go increasingly digital (last week, Amazon reported for the first time ever that e-book sales were outpacing those ...

The New York Times bestseller list is less likely to include works published by conservative authors even if their books posted sales figures that matched those of left-leaning writers ...

On one level, the definition of a “bestseller” is simple: it is a book that appears on a list because it has sold the greatest number of copies in a given, usually short, time. How many copies ...