What is a national bestseller?

Again, it varies from publishing house to publishing house. National Bestselling means that the book listed on either Borders, Barnes and Noble, or possible Books a Millions’ internal bestseller list.

What does it mean to be an international best seller?

Books can be labeled as a “National Bestseller” once they’ve appeared on a bestseller list published in a national publication, like The National Post. An “International Bestseller” appears on lists across at least two countries. Books can claim “#1 bestseller” status if, you guessed it, they appeared in the #1 spot.

What determines if a book is a bestseller?

Well-known bestseller lists in the U.S. are published by Publishers Weekly, USA Today, The New York Times and The Washington Post. Steinberg defined a bestseller as a book for which demand, within a short time of that book’s initial publication, vastly exceeds what is then considered to be big sales.

What are the criteria for a bestseller?

To achieve bestseller status on the Times not only do you have to sell at least 5,000 – 10,000 copies in one week, but these sales have to be diverse sales. That is, you cannot sell 10,000 books to a pre-existing list of followers through a personal website or thousands from only one marketplace like Barnes and Noble.

What is a New York Times best selling author?

What’s the difference between top rated and best seller?

Technically, best means nothing is better, whereas top can just mean something like in the upper 10\% or beyond a certain threshold. In reality both of these are marketing terms used for their sound and the exact meaning usually doesn’t matter. For example, check out the Wikipedia article on bestseller.

How many copies does a bestseller sell?

For most, if a book hits any bestseller’s list of any kind (there are quite a few smaller speciality lists out there), they consider it a bestseller. But some books that hit those lists only end up selling 5,000 or 10,000 copies for that week.