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Why is this so highly upvoted ? this is just a standard best seller list, for books. What's so interesting about it ?
by petra 9y ago
Why is this so highly upvoted ? this is just a standard best seller list, for books. What's so interesting about it ?
- wand3r 9y agoThis can't be new can it? I assumed something like this had been out for a while; maybe novel because it's weekly?
- pythonistic 9y agoThis front-end is new, but they've been crunching sales hourly for each category for over a decade. They've made the bestseller list both more prominent and less specific (you can infer less data from these charts than you could by tracking Zeitgeist lists).
- hbosch 9y agoSeems like Amazon is trying to replace every book's "NY Times Bestseller" with "Amazon Bestseller"? Another move by Amazon to more deeply penetrate consumer culture with a quick hack.
- jasode 9y agoThe NYT Bestseller list is human curated instead of just ranking the raw sales numbers.[1] If the Amazon ranking is based on pure order count[2], Amazon Charts would be an interesting alternative list. It can't fully "replace" the NYT list because I assume many readers want that newspaper's editorial filtering. [1] https://booklaunch.com/the-truth-about-the-new-york-times-and-wall-street-journal-bestseller-lists/#022117 https://booklaunch.com/the-truth-about-the-new-york-times-an... [2] possibly related: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/8-things-people-dont-know-amazons-bestsellers-rank-sales-rank/ http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/8-things-people-dont-know-amazo...
- 6stringmerc 9y agoGood question, and just like any chart...ahem, Billboard...I'm initially skeptical about the integrity of the methodology. As in, there are lots of reasons to fudge numbers or engage in marketing tactics rather than straight factual reporting. Caveat Emptor.