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SOMEHOW.- Jeremy West August 24, 2017īuying your way onto the bestseller list is not technically illegal, nor is it that hard if you know how.

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I'm baffled by this too and have discussed longform offline already. Jeremy West, manager of OnBroadwayish, pointed to the book’s sales, which according to Nielsen Bookscan, are 18k for the past week alone. If you know anything about Goodreads, you’ll already hear the bullshit alarm. The book currently has 9 Goodreads reviews, all of which are 5 stars and some of which are duplicates. J Brown, noted the questionable quality of the book’s Amazon reviews, which Fakespot deems of unreliable and low quality. But here we are.- Phil Stamper August 24, 2017Īnother user, writer Erik. You shouldn't be able to buy your way onto the list. HV9l0neRgG- Phil Stamper August 24, 2017 A book that's out of stock on Amazon and is not currently in any physical B&N in the tri-state area. RS1UoWl6H4- Phil Stamper August 24, 2017 I find it… strange that a mediocre website can decide it wants to be a publisher, and one month later hit #1 on the NYT Bestsellers list.

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YA writer and publisher Phil Stamper raised the alarm bells on this novel’s sudden success through a series of tweets, noting GeekNation’s own low traffic, the inability to even buy it on Amazon or Barnes & Noble, and its out-of-nowhere relevance. There’s little real excitement or details on it coming from the YA blogging world, which is a mighty community who are not quiet about the things they’re passionate about (believe me, first hand experience here). Googling it leads to several other books with the same title, but most of the coverage for it is press release based. Sarem has an IMDb page with some very minor acting roles, several of which are uncredited, but details on the book are scanter to find. The site announced this news only last week, through a press release that can be read on places like The Hollywood Reporter, not a site known for extensive YA coverage. Handbook For Mortals by Lani Sarem is the debut novel from the publishing arm of website GeekNation. Knocking that from the top of the NYT YA list would be a major deal, and this week it’s going to happen. Through publisher buzz and exceedingly strong word of mouth, the novel has stormed to the forefront of the YA world and found thousands of fans, with a film on the way. For the past 25 weeks, that big book in the YA world has been The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, a searing politically charged drama about a young black girl who sees a police officer kill her friend, and the fallout it causes in her community. Everyone’s looking for the next big thing and that costs a lot of cash. Some publishers spend thousands of dollars on advertising and blogger outreach to get that number. That’s not the heights of publishing’s heyday but it’s still harder to get than you’d think. Nowadays, you can make the bestseller list with about 5,000 sales. If everyone else is buying the book, surely you have to too, right? Making your way to the still-coveted New York Times best-seller list remains one of the biggest markers of success as well as a reliable way to sell more books.

Building an audience can be hard, competition is tight, profit margins even tighter, and most authors have annual wages below the poverty line.