One big misconception is that you have to write a mega-seller to make the list. The majority of titles on The New York Times best-seller list only sell between 10,000 and 100,000 copies in their first year. “The Slippery Year,” a 2009 memoir by Melanie Gideon, made the list with a yearly sale of fewer than 5,000 copies.
Hence, Stephen Harper’s books such as his book on hockey, “A Great Game” and his most recent about populism, “Right Here, Right Now” will likely never see the light of day with the NY Slimes list.
I read many times that Harper hater Michael Harris had a tremendous best seller with his book ‘Party of One’, but I have never met anyone who bought it.
I wonder how many copies that screed sold.
I have news for you. Market Watch, along with the news section, is the lefty arm of the Journal. Read the comments.
“The first thing the data reminded me is just how few books in my favorite category, science, become best-sellers — a paltry 1.1%. Science books compete for a spot on the nonfiction list with everything from business to history, sports to religion.”
I want to know how much of that 1.1% is actual science, not globalist-approved “settled” pseudo-science.
The Grey Lady wants you reading about how capitalism is killing Gaia, not about the frontiers of research in human intelligence, much less the link between genetics and IQ.
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I suspect a best seller in Canada might be 1000 copies.
I bought Harpers book on hockey when it came out. Whata guy. He writes a well reached well written book on hockey while he is PM of Canada.
Mordacai Richler once remarked that authors who support CanLit want the government to provide them with an audience that their talent cannot.
I worked for a small publisher 25 years ago, our base printing order was 5,000 copies, several titles only sold maybe half that original print run. The rest sat in storage with maybe a few sales a year.