“They all said the same thing: someone called and placed a large order or asked about placing a large bulk order ‘for an upcoming event’.” The lack of social media buzz, the fact that no one in the young adult community was talking about it or had even heard of it … it all sounded fishy.” West said he had spoken to five bookshops about the novel.
West told Publishers Weekly: “As soon as I saw the list yesterday, it didn’t make sense to me. An IMDb page for an adaption of the novel lists the author, Sarem (who is also an actor and music act manager), as lined up to play the lead character. Another bookshop shared similar information with West, while Publishers Weekly reported that a shop outside Las Vegas had a customer who ordered 87 copies after learning it was an NYT-reporting shop.Įntertainment website Pajiba, which first reported on the controversy, speculated that “someone, whoever they may be, hopes to use the ‘#1 New York Times bestselling novel’ moniker as a launching pad to a studio deal”. Stamper shared messages he had received from bookshop staff who said they had been contacted to see if their store was an NYT-reporting shop – the paper’s lists are collated from information supplied by a confidential group of stores – before a bulk order was placed.
Stamper and other YA writers, including Jeremy West, began to investigate. “You shouldn’t be able to buy your way on to the list. Sells ~5,000 in the first week? Ok,” Stamper wrote on Twitter on Thursday. “A book that no one has heard of except for the two niche blogs that covered the GN press release. It will be useful for readers, too.But author Phil Stamper began to ask questions, pointing out that the book’s publisher was only launched a month earlier and that the novel was listed as out of stock on Amazon. “Just like book reviews, the bestseller lists are another place for discovery. “I think in this new reconfiguration, you’ll see a lot more newly published hardcover fiction,” she said. Paul hopes that the new lists will help draw potential readers to new books. But there are major technical challenges that we were unable to implement right away.” Those challenges have now been addressed, and the changes will go into effect for the lists dated August 21. “What they were saying supported what we were seeing.
“I was witnessing this debate at the same time I saw the trends at the Book Review,” she said. She had received complaints, including seeing debates on Twitter among new authors who felt they weren’t being represented fairly. Paul posits that readers, authors, and publishers will be happy to see more diversity in the newly reconfigured lists, in the same way that bestselling titles are represented for adults. Our Internet audience is growing enormously, and paperback and e-book sales are not trending the way we expected four years ago, and as a result the lists are not reflecting the breadth of what’s being published.” So it made sense to return to the model we use in adult.” Paul sees a slight trade-off in moving paperback and e-book figures online, as opposed to their appearing in print, but said, “Given how large our Internet readership is, I didn’t feel we were losing anything. “New authors would find it hard to break into the list, and it was difficult for readers to discover new writers from those lists. What happened, however, “was that given the relative unit sales of paperbacks, they would overtake the lists,” she said. Adding paperbacks to the newly created middle grade and YA sections allowed more titles to be included on the list.
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