EP28: What Exactly Is A Bestseller? Number Crunching with Nielsen
The Bestseller Experiment · Bestseller Experiment
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Show Notes
We answer one of the most common questions we get on our quest: What is a bestseller? We spoke to Sara Mulryan of Nielsen Bookscan, the people who gather the data for the UK charts and made some fascinating discoveries.
In this episode you will discover:
- How book sales data feeds into different charts - Why you should pay close attention to your book's genre, and which ones are the most popular - What you can get out of events like the London Book Fair - The best time of year, week and time of day to publish your book
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