Reference:BESTSELLERS

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BESTSELLERS

New York Times Bestseller Lists: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/bestseller/

Older archive (back to 1900) of bestsellers: http://www.caderbooks.com/bestintro.html

Links to various bestselling books lists: http://www.bookspot.com/bestsellers.htm

Number of books published in the U.S. each year: See Bowker Annual (Ref. Z 731 A47). For sales figures, see http://www.bisg.org, http://www.publishers.org/ and http://www.bowker.com.

Bookscan.com is the major source of data for number of books sold in the U.S. but we don't have a subscription to it.

More information on best sellers can be found in our Business Article Databases

For the top songs, see Popular Music United States Discography (such as the Billboard series of books on number one hits). Also see Billboard which ranks the top 200 albums or CDs.

See also Publishers and Readers Advisory

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12/08