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<blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 469840" data-attributes="member: 1">The problem with it is that all it shows is who was around when there weren't many PDF publishers.&nbsp; If you released a product a year ago, you're probably on that list; if you release it in early 2003 you're very unlikely to make it.That doesn't help the consumer at all - it's just a list of the oldest products (with one or two exceptions).&nbsp; It also probably adversely affects current publishers who find it so much harder to get their product seen by people, which could well be better than anything on that list.So a last 30 days option seems to me to be a much more accurate, and much fairer way to do it.Again, I disagree.&nbsp; If you go into a music or video store, you never see shelves with the best-ever selling albums or videos.&nbsp; You see the &quot;current chart&quot;.&nbsp; The mucis industry suffers the same problem that this one does - it's bloated.&nbsp; The number of sales required to reach #1 in the charts is vastly less than it was in, say, the 70s.&nbsp; So all you'd ever see in prominent places in music stores would be old Beatles and Michael Jackson albums, and nothing current.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Morrus, post: 469840, member: 1"] The problem with it is that all it shows is who was around when there weren't many PDF publishers. If you released a product a year ago, you're probably on that list; if you release it in early 2003 you're very unlikely to make it. That doesn't help the consumer at all - it's just a list of the oldest products (with one or two exceptions). It also probably adversely affects current publishers who find it so much harder to get their product seen by people, which could well be better than anything on that list. So a last 30 days option seems to me to be a much more accurate, and much fairer way to do it. Again, I disagree. If you go into a music or video store, you never see shelves with the best-ever selling albums or videos. You see the "current chart". The mucis industry suffers the same problem that this one does - it's bloated. The number of sales required to reach #1 in the charts is vastly less than it was in, say, the 70s. So all you'd ever see in prominent places in music stores would be old Beatles and Michael Jackson albums, and nothing current. [/QUOTE]

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