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Seems like Amazon is trying to replace every book's "NY Times Bestseller" with "Amazon Bestseller"? Another move by Amazon to more deeply penetrate consumer cul
by hbosch 9y ago
Seems 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...