|
Analyzing the NYTimes bestseller list
Clark Hoyt, Public Editor for the New York Times takes a closer look at how the New York Times best-seller list is compiled in his recent Books for the Ages, if Not for the Best-Seller List.
“But the list, compiled in strict secrecy to prevent cheating by publishers and authors, is not a completely accurate barometer of what the reading public is buying, and it has generated controversy from time to time, most recently last month, when “Night,” Elie Wiesel’s haunting memoir of survival in Nazi death camps, was summarily dropped because the editor of the best-seller list decided the book was an “evergreen” that The Times would no longer track.”
via Social Media
