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Publish a book with classified secrets and let the Pentagon know. Apparently they’re going to purchase and destroy 10,000 copies of an Afghan war memoir.
Except that a few have already slipped through to distribution. Bet you wish you’d landed a copy, huh? I wonder what they’ll be selling for in Ebay.
Random House is suggesting they may go for a second printing. Duh.
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September 10, 2010 at 2:07 pm
Anonymous
I wonder if that isn’t how some right wingers like Rush and Coulter get onto the list. Right wing foundations putting out money to buy them wholesale. Is the best seller list based on wholesale or retail?
September 10, 2010 at 3:38 pm
Sally
Kindle.
September 10, 2010 at 4:07 pm
Godknot
Scientology has done this several times; also, I think Sarah Palin.
September 11, 2010 at 2:38 pm
Eric Kirk
This is what Wikipedia has.
The list is created by the editors of the “News Surveys” department, not by The New York Times Book Review department, where it is published. It is based on weekly sales reports obtained from selected samples of independent and chain bookstores, as well as wholesalers, throughout the United States. The sales figures are widely believed to represent books that have actually been sold at retail, rather than wholesale figures,[3] as the Times surveys a number of actual booksellers in an attempt to better reflect what is purchased by individual buyers. Some books are flagged with a dagger indicating that a significant number of bulk orders had been received by retail bookstores.
The exact methodology used in creating the list is classified as a trade secret.[4] In 1992, the survey encompassed over 3,000 bookstores as well as “representative wholesalers with more than 28,000 other retail outlets, including variety stores and supermarkets.”[4]
September 13, 2010 at 10:24 pm
Anonymous
Why isn’t the Bible on the best sellers list? It always outsells all of the books in the top ten combined.
September 14, 2010 at 7:46 am
Eric Kirk
I think they exclude certain books long in circulation, including the Tolkien series.