Exactly how much weight does stuff like the "NYT Bestseller" mean nowadays? To provide an anecdote, I remember seeing it put on books that I've literally never even heard of before.
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"The New York Times Bestseller" and other "classic" literary accolades and awards - How meaningful are they today?
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People don't read books anymore unless it's a young adult novel or adapted from a fanfic. That being said, I don't know anyone who gives it any weight. It only has an air of legitimacy because the NYT used to be respectable. It's brand recognition at this point.
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I don't think I've read anything that would constitute a "popular" book in years so that kind of stuff usually means it's the lowest common denominator of quality in my mind. Like @break these cuffs said it's a marketing thing, more like what they want you to read rather than what's good or informative.
I mean, look at this shit: https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/
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I mean, look at this shit: https://www.nytimes.com/books/best-sellers/
Paperback nonfiction #4:
WHITE FRAGILITY
NYT bestseller just means that the powers that be have decided that this specific repeat of the same clichéd vacuous story will appeal to the masses... as a proxy for quality, it's near useless.
People are going to rate me :autistic: but I generally don't read modern fiction. There's way more older stuff out there that has actual reading value and expands your mind, not the same droning on about how brave and stunning you are for being a depressed emo goth kid. There are some good modern books out there but I generally get my reading recommendations from /lit/ if I can't find something I feel like reading at the moment.
People are going to rate me :autistic: but I generally don't read modern fiction. There's way more older stuff out there that has actual reading value and expands your mind, not the same droning on about how brave and stunning you are for being a depressed emo goth kid. There are some good modern books out there but I generally get my reading recommendations from /lit/ if I can't find something I feel like reading at the moment.
Awards are bullshit marketing scams.
Or the industry patting itself on the back.
Possibly both.
Or the industry patting itself on the back.
Possibly both.
Daily Life with Monstergirls managed to hit the NYT bestseller list. Cue the baffled readers of NYT.
From what I heard, the amount of sales to get automatically shortlisted for NYT bestseller is actually absurdly low, hence why there's so many books no one has ever heard of on it.
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I always though being a NYT best seller was like hitting the top 40 on the radio. It's the stamp of approval for the tasteless masses.
Another easy way to get on the NYT Bestseller list is to have libraries, both public and associated with schools, buy a fuckton of it. Which is why books like "Audacity of Hope"by Obama(allegedly), "My Life" by Bill Clinton (doubtful), and "Living History" by Hillary Clinton(not a chance in hell) clog library shelves for months on end, while the reservation list for an actual popular author is measured in months.
In other words, going by that metric is 99.99% junk. I get better recommendations from following the "people have also bought" section on Amazon for books that I like.
In other words, going by that metric is 99.99% junk. I get better recommendations from following the "people have also bought" section on Amazon for books that I like.
The Clique series was on there, a series some reviewers have compared to kiddie porn
And who could forget the children's literary equivalent, The Newberry Medal?
Twilight, 50 shades and great self-help book The Secret have all hit the NY Times best seller list, and those were arguably when the NYT wasn't considered complete and utter garbage. I find most awards given for most mediums to be mastabatory rubbish. Be it NYT Best Seller, Grammys, Emmys, Oscars and the like.
Pretty sure that "NYT Bestseller list" is not an award. It's just a metric from sales totals, broken down into genre categories...
It's just popular trends, like "#1 at the box office". "Highest Grossing film of Year!", "Most visitied Pornography Site", and "Most popular place to make fun of Autists!"
If you care about profit and social popularity, it matters. Other than that? No, and it never did...
It's just popular trends, like "#1 at the box office". "Highest Grossing film of Year!", "Most visitied Pornography Site", and "Most popular place to make fun of Autists!"
If you care about profit and social popularity, it matters. Other than that? No, and it never did...
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The real scam is the million tiny Amazon categories for every type of books. There are even scam guides to get bestselling in a category like Hydrology, Colon & Rectal Surgery, and Microscopes.
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List of the Top 100 Least Competitive Amazon Kindle Bestseller Lists and
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"least competitive amazon kindle bestsellers"The real scam is the million tiny Amazon categories for every type of books. There are even scam guides to get bestselling in a category like Hydrology, Colon & Rectal Surgery, and Microscopes.
List of the Top 100 Least Competitive Amazon Kindle Bestseller Lists and
In this blog post, we analyze the 100 least competitive bestseller lists on Amazon.
Children's eBooks -> Literature & Fiction -> Historical Fiction -> Exploration & Discoveries
^ this right here is western civilization's epitaph.
Could have worse. Could have been the Encyclopedia.
Could have worse. Could have been the Encyclopedia.
If by worse you mean better.
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