{"id":178,"date":"2007-09-26T22:50:32","date_gmt":"2007-09-27T03:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/2007\/09\/26\/now-more-nyt-bestsellers-coming-near-you-more-ways-to-be-above-average\/"},"modified":"2007-09-26T22:50:32","modified_gmt":"2007-09-27T03:50:32","slug":"now-more-nyt-bestsellers-coming-near-you-more-ways-to-be-above-average","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/26\/now-more-nyt-bestsellers-coming-near-you-more-ways-to-be-above-average\/","title":{"rendered":"Now more NYT Bestsellers coming near you! (More ways to be above average)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Getlin of The Los Angeles Times writes about the\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/la-et-bestseller26sep26,0,124460.story?coll=la-headlines-calendar\">expansion of The New York Times bestsellers list<\/a> to differentiate between trade paperback (the bigger flat books) and mass-market paperbacks (the squatter ones). While the article doesn&#8217;t explicitly say this, it&#8217;s part of the NYTimes&#8217; desire to value &#8220;impact\/influence of books&#8221; rather than\u00c2\u00a0 straight up sales (which the Amazon<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/bestsellers\/books\/ref=pd_ts_h\"> top 100 list<\/a> is a better reflection of, despite the bias towards techie and business-y books). For example, when Harry Potter books suddenly dominated the top bestsellers list, children&#8217;s books were made into a separate category. The Advice\/How To\/Miscellaneous category was also pulled out some years back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Getlin of The Los Angeles Times writes about the\u00c2\u00a0 expansion of The New York Times bestsellers list to differentiate between trade paperback (the bigger flat books) and mass-market paperbacks (the squatter ones). While the article doesn&#8217;t explicitly say this, it&#8217;s part of the NYTimes&#8217; desire to value &#8220;impact\/influence of books&#8221; rather than\u00c2\u00a0 straight up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-musings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pydS-2S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fortunecookiechronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}