Best Seller List

[plinsenmayer]

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From: plinsenmayer
Subject: Re: Best Seller List
Reply To: [Yahoo! #3554] Best Seller List
Date: 7/9/00 1:52 pm  (ET)

Hi:

<<I'm pretty mixed about the NY Times Best Seller list splitting into an
adult's list and a children's list. Don't they already have specialized
lists (business books for example)?

I, for one, hope that by creating a children's list that these books
will become less ignored.>>>

They do have a number of specialized lists, but it's my understanding
that HP books will no longer be on the main bestseller list at all. They
will *only* be on the children's list. That's my complaint. I don't read
business books, to use your example, so I would have no occasion to look
at the business bestsellers list. Similarly, I don't have children yet,
so no occasion to read a childrens' bestseller list. So . . . would I
have ever found the HP books if they weren't on the NY Times list? Word
of mouth would have been the only way. Would I be skeptical that a
"children's" book was worth a read, no matter how strong the personal
recommendation? Certainly possible.

If they want to create a children's list but leave them on the main
bestseller list since they are outselling all the other authors, that'd
be fine with me. My beef is that they are removing them from the main
list that everyone reads. A business book, to use your example again,
may be on the special business bestseller list, but it's probably also
on the general non-fiction bestseller list (although maybe at a lower
spot on the more general list).

Plus, after reading GoF, I can tell you that there's no way that one is a
"children's book".

My $.02

Penny