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<blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 6369266" data-attributes="member: 2525"><p>First, it was originally "If I Stay" that did it, and second, that is not an evergreen book. It's a new textbook for Psych 101, required reading at a massive number of colleges right now, and it's back to school week. If ONLY text books were evergreen, students wouldn't be fleeced for so much money every year <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>You're looking at a snapshot, not an overall picture for the last week or so. The books I named were all up there at the time it took #1.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>You are very incorrect in that - it's in theaters right now, which is why it's selling like hotcakes. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Well, you'd be wrong in that. Movies usually make their books top of the bestseller list, even if the book is decades old (hence Great Gatsby hit top bestseller for a time). There was a lot of data that came out on that when Ender's Game was in theaters, for political reasons. It's a much wider audience than the book gets on it's initial movie release, and these movies based on novels showing up in the top bestsellers is consistent with prior data.</p><p></p><p>We have lots of really good, hard data from a lot of top bestsellers who revealed their sales numbers on Amazon at different times of the year with different levels of competition, and they all roughly agree that the top book sells in the thousands of books per hour. Until someone here shows that level of evidence to the contrary, and stops using just their own instincts combined with admitted anti-WOTC or anti-5e bias, I think these challenges to the meaningfulness of taking the #1 slot look quite shallow. Take the high route - just let 5e fans enjoy this moment in time - however brief it might be, it's meaningful for now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mistwell, post: 6369266, member: 2525"] First, it was originally "If I Stay" that did it, and second, that is not an evergreen book. It's a new textbook for Psych 101, required reading at a massive number of colleges right now, and it's back to school week. If ONLY text books were evergreen, students wouldn't be fleeced for so much money every year :) You're looking at a snapshot, not an overall picture for the last week or so. The books I named were all up there at the time it took #1. You are very incorrect in that - it's in theaters right now, which is why it's selling like hotcakes. Well, you'd be wrong in that. Movies usually make their books top of the bestseller list, even if the book is decades old (hence Great Gatsby hit top bestseller for a time). There was a lot of data that came out on that when Ender's Game was in theaters, for political reasons. It's a much wider audience than the book gets on it's initial movie release, and these movies based on novels showing up in the top bestsellers is consistent with prior data. We have lots of really good, hard data from a lot of top bestsellers who revealed their sales numbers on Amazon at different times of the year with different levels of competition, and they all roughly agree that the top book sells in the thousands of books per hour. Until someone here shows that level of evidence to the contrary, and stops using just their own instincts combined with admitted anti-WOTC or anti-5e bias, I think these challenges to the meaningfulness of taking the #1 slot look quite shallow. Take the high route - just let 5e fans enjoy this moment in time - however brief it might be, it's meaningful for now. [/QUOTE]
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