A Monday night check of Amazon’s Kindle Bestseller list reinforces what we found in our Monday morning post: Kindle Unlimited looks to be having a significant effect on the etailer’s hourly bestseller list, since KU checkouts are being counted as “sales” for bestseller rank purposes. On Monday evening, 42 of the top 100 titles were KU offerings. 28 of those titles are exclusive to Amazon, either through the Amazon Publishing imprints (15 titles) or through KDP Select (13 titles). Another 14 of the new “bestsellers” are books from traditional and digital publishers, all but one of which (Business Adventures) were not on […]
