According to industry professionals, as cited by Wikipedia, "A bestseller is a book that is identified as extremely popular by its inclusion on lists of currently top selling titles that are based on publishing industry and book trade figures and published by newspapers, magazines, or bookstore chains.
Bestseller lists may vary widely, depending on the method used for calculating sales. Some lists, including The New York Times Best Seller list only tracks National and Independent book stores; it does not include sales from Internet retailers or box stores such as Walmart or Target, or critically, library sales. The Book Sense bestseller lists, for example, use only sales numbers, provided by independently-owned (non-chain) bookstores. And USA Today has only one list, not separated into fiction/non-fiction and hardcover/paperback, so that relative sales among these categories can be ascertained.
Perhaps the most accurate best-seller list are the lists compiled by the industry's Wholesalers such as Baker & Taylor, Ingram, Brodart, Bookazine, and Levy (previously Koen-Levy), to name a few since these lists account for total sales to all distribution channels (independent stores, chains, box stores, on-line, and critically, the library market).
I am very pleased to say that each book I have previously released has hit and maintained itself on an assortment of industry wholesaler best-selling lists. This inlcuded 'War On Wall Street', which maintained a #1 position on Koen's Independent publisher best-selling list for three weeks, while staying at anywhere from #5 to # 8 in the general fiction 'best seller' catagory during that same time period. 'Cloning Christ', over a 58 week period stayed on the industry's leading wholesaler, Ingram, best-selling fiction list (top 25) for a total of 15 weeks, which is an incredible feat, including being ranked as high as #3 on their charts, and, it also hit Baker & Taylor's top best selling list for four weeks while also making a score of other best-selling lists. And 'The Den of The Assassin' was included in Baker & Taylor's top best-seller list for two weeks.
With 'Chasing The Cyclone' coming out in less than five weeks, I fully anticiapte that this publication will hit an assortment of best-seller lists.
And what is so exciting is that the show on the world's greatest writers that I was in pre-production of before I had to chase into the cyclones of international child abduciton today is where I knew it would be once I found and brought home my son.
Please find attached some of the best-seller lists my published works have appeared on. It is very humbling to know I am in such incredible company.
