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NYT Sunday Book Review Will Include E-Book Bestseller List in 2011

by Caleb Johnson on November 11, 2010 at 11:45 AM

New York Times e-book tracking
Further cementing e-books' relevance to mainstream culture, the New York Times announced Wednesday that it will include e-book bestseller lists for fiction and non-fiction titles in its Sunday Book Review, beginning early next year. The Times, with help from data-tracking company RoyaltyShare, will cull sales numbers from publishing houses, big-box bookstores, indie bookstores, online retailers and other sources. "To give the fullest and most accurate possible snapshot of what books are being read at a given moment you have to include as many different formats as possible, and e-books have really grown, there's no question about it," said Sam Tanenhaus, editor of the Sunday Book Review. In fact, according to the Association of American Publishers, e-book sales saw a 190-percent increase in the first nine months of 2010 from the same period in 2009, totaling $304.6 million -- a staggering increase, considering that holiday sales have only just begun to ramp up.

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