There are a few updates on the big paring of the New York Times bestseller lists that we covered yesterday. Following our observations noting a few significant changes in the posted methodology (including the elimination of weighting sales from indie bookstores, and allowing the counting of sales from Amazon-exclusive ebooks), a NYT spokesperson confirmed to us that indeed “the methodology was updated to reflect changes to the lists.” A follow-up asking for confirmation that they have dropped the ban on counting certain prosaic types of evergreen nonfiction was not answered, but on Twitter yesterday NYTBR editor Pamela Paul did write, “Just to be […]