I don't have any idea if bestseller list packing is a tactic outside the U.S., or the English-language nations. Ultimately, as referenced in the article, "bestseller" has become increasingly...
In November, Donald Trump Jr.’s Triggered hit number one on the New York Times bestsellers list—with an asterisk. Or more accurately, a dagger (†). This is the first time many people noticed this dagger and learned that it means the NYT believes the book has made it onto the list with the help of bulk purchases. It is, however, far from the first book to do this.
I don't have any idea if bestseller list packing is a tactic outside the U.S., or the English-language nations.
Ultimately, as referenced in the article, "bestseller" has become increasingly meaningless inside the minute categories dictated by Amazon.
Aside from the dishonesty, I find it viscerally repulsive to imagine trees being chopped down to produce books of such questionable value, that exist mainly to be pulped, burned, or buried.
I don't have any idea if bestseller list packing is a tactic outside the U.S., or the English-language nations.
Ultimately, as referenced in the article, "bestseller" has become increasingly meaningless inside the minute categories dictated by Amazon.
Aside from the dishonesty, I find it viscerally repulsive to imagine trees being chopped down to produce books of such questionable value, that exist mainly to be pulped, burned, or buried.