WSJ Retools Best-Seller List to Include e-Books
The paper is the latest to address the reality of increased digital sales.
| Posted Friday, Oct. 28, 2011, at 10:54 AM ET
The Wall Street Journal is revamping its bestseller list by letting the new kids into the club: e-book. Yes, that means your very own self-published zombie romance historical fiction e-opus is now eligible to make the list. Watch out, Nicholas Sparks.
The Associated Press reports that Nielsen, who has provided the Journal with lists based on physical sales of books since 2009, will as of this weekend provide four new bestseller lists: e-books, paperback, and hardcover combined in fiction and nonfiction; and e-books only in fiction and nonfiction.
The New York Times and USA Today already include e-books in their bestseller lists. Like the Times, the Journal and Nielsen point to increasing the accuracy of their lists as the reason for the change. "These new charts uniquely reflect what people are really buying and reading and will most definitely advance the industry's understanding of e-book best sellers," Nielsen Bookscan VP Jonathan Stolper said in a statement. The new lists won’t include the actual number of units sold, just rankings.
The e-book lists will come from sales through Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Apple and Google, among others. In addition to conventionally published books aimed at an adult audience, the lists can include titles from any of the following categories: self-published, children's and perennials, (older works that continue to do sell well).
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