From Episode 008 with Tyler Wagner
- New York Times Best Seller List
- http://heather-maclean.com/how-the-new-york-times-bestseller-list-works/ (Article explains it the best)
- The Time List
- You will have to sell at least 5,000 copies during any one-week period
- The category and window of your release both significantly impact the number of copies required to hit the Times bestseller list
- The Wall Street Journal
- The WSJ list is based on Nielsen Bookscan recording, which represents 75-80% of the actual market.
- It usually takes about 3000 -4000 sales to hit the WSJ bestseller list.
- USA Today
- Based on Nielsen Bookscan recording
- All books are put are together (no categories) and ranked by raw sales data
- One list of high selling books
- Amazon
- Bestseller list is updated on an hourly basis
- Focus all your marketing efforts on your release date
- Average Day, it should take about 500 copies to make the top 100 or 2000 sales to hit Amazon Top 10