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Thank you We sneak in Bestsellers Popularity ah la shmoop
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What makes a book become wildly popular Books have to
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appeal to people's imaginations first and foremost and that's Why
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some of the most popular books of all time are
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fantasy novels Books also have tio open a space so
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that people can relate to them That's Why memoirs and
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nonfiction sell really well it's also a historical fiction is
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a huge category and then people look for books to
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transport them out of there really lives So romance novels
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again fantasy novels or science fiction Those actually all cells
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really really well yeah so basically in order to sell
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well a book has to be challenging It has to
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take you out of the world in some way but
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also be fun and interesting and readable How does a
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book get on a bestselling list Those lists all draw
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from different sources So right now you can tell if
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a book was popular basically if it's sold a lot
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but people buy books and all sorts of places so
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the new york times best seller list uses bookselling data
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from different book stores all across the country and also
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online book retailers The washington post i believe uses figures
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from the nielsen book scan which is a big national
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record of what books are selling There are a bunch
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of independent bookstore bestseller lists Amazon has its own bestseller
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list where they don't tell you exactly how many copies
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of something has sold But they do tell you what
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is selling the best So yeah there are also two
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different audiences and they all like different types of books
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But for the most part what we're measuring when we
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call something a best seller is how many people went
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to a bookstore in person or online and bought a
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copy of the book What makes a book become wildly
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popular How does a book get on a bestselling list
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