Why is this important? Well, it's a lot like crowdfunding. Conventional markets, and awards, and all that other jazz are still largely ignoring crowdfunded works (with a few notable exceptions, like the Nebula with The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland...) If you want to know what is going on in a field, then you have to look at ALL of it, not just the parts that you personally think are special. Otherwise you will get blindsided by the new things. The Internet, social networking, and other cool new things are making it possible for individuals or casual groups to achieve things that used to be possible only for Big Business. So don't take your eye off the ball.
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- Elizabeth Barrette (
ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
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What is a bestseller?
Why is this important? Well, it's a lot like crowdfunding. Conventional markets, and awards, and all that other jazz are still largely ignoring crowdfunded works (with a few notable exceptions, like the Nebula with The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland...) If you want to know what is going on in a field, then you have to look at ALL of it, not just the parts that you personally think are special. Otherwise you will get blindsided by the new things. The Internet, social networking, and other cool new things are making it possible for individuals or casual groups to achieve things that used to be possible only for Big Business. So don't take your eye off the ball.
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February 12 2011, 17:12:24 UTC 10 years ago
and there's nothing wrong with that, since nobody lies about it.
If a show is popular with people who spend a lot of money in a particular product category,
it's a hit show. And while networks and programers don't emphasize this
"proportional distortion" they don't go so far as to tacitly deny that it exists.
But pretending that a book which is popular with a single demographic,
however significant that demographic, is a best-seller
constitutes a prime example of the well-known observation
regarding lies, damned lies, and statistics.