Amazon Best Seller Rank Doesn’t Tell You the Best Books, It Tells You What’s Selling.
Walk into any independent bookstore and ask an employee one simple question: “What’s the best novel you’ve ever read?” Now, follow up with a completely different question: “Which novel sold the most copies yesterday?” You will almost certainly get two radically different answers. That fundamental divide—the gap between literary quality and commercial velocity—is a distinction … Read more