Reply #9: IMO bulk sales to RW organizations help but... [View All]

[nyc 4 Biden]

I think there are enough RW numbnuts out there buying this garbage to put them on the NY Times best seller list. It doesnt take as many sales as one would think to make best seller lists.

http://www.slate.com/id/2108296/">Here's a good Slate article which discusses the best seller lists.

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So how many books do you actually need to sell to make it onto, say, the Times list? There is no defined threshold, but according to the Stanford study, one book made the hardcover fiction list selling only 2,108 copies a week; more typically, the median weekly sales figure in the study was 18,717. And most books can't keep even these modest sale rates up for long: Sales generally peak during a book's second week on the list and then steadily decline. Over a period of six months, the median best seller in the Stanford study averaged weekly sales of just over 3,600 copies.