After editorial layoffs forced USA Today’s Best-selling Booklist to go on hiatus in December 2022, the list relaunched today. Like the old list, the new list will consist of 150 titles in all genres, including self-published books, and combine print and digital sales numbers. Previously, compiling the list was a manual process, but now is automated. A release explains that the list is “based exclusively on sales analysis from U.S. booksellers including bookstore chains, independent bookstores, mass merchandisers and online retailers.” “The relaunch is an automated effort that still uses the same algorithm we already had in place but now […]
