As noted a couple of months ago, we have been experimenting with putting filters on top on our big database of national bestseller lists (now over 12 years deep) to extract some comparison info over time. With the year complete, we thought it would be interesting to generate a calculation of NYT “bestseller share” by major publishers. To simplifyy things, the figures below are based on the printed lists only, and calculate total “slots.” (A single title can capture multiple slots on NYT lists in a given week; we track by both titles and slots, but it’s easiest to keep the lens […]
