Amazon Charts Book Rankings and Top 100 Kindle Best Sellers

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Here are the latest Amazon Charts book rankings:

Fiction

Non-Fiction

And the Top 100 Kindle Best Sellers

Top 100 Kindle Books – Paid

Top 100 Kindle Books – Free

 

3 thoughts on “Amazon Charts Book Rankings and Top 100 Kindle Best Sellers”

  1. Noob here with a stupid question. What’s the difference between Most Sold and Most Read? If you’ve paid for it, isn’t there an assumption you read it? Or is it referring to the Kindle lending library?

    Thanks for any enlightenment.

    • Amazon says “Amazon’s Most Read charts rank titles by the average number of daily Kindle readers and Audible listeners each week. Categories not ranked on Most Read charts include dictionaries, encyclopedias, religious texts, daily devotionals, and calendars.”

    • Have you ever run into a book hoarder?
      Most avid readers are, to one extent or another.

      It’s a vestige of the old days–before print-on-demand and ebooks–when books would go out of print, often right after the launch window.

      Readers evolved a strategy of buying every intriguing book on sight because it might no longer be available when they were ready to read it. The result was a stockpile of books “To be read”, commonly referred to as a TBR list.

      One result of the practice was the unread bestseller: books bought because “everybody” was buying it but that nobody actually read.

      These days the expectation is that published books will be available indefinitely, either in digital or used print formats, so TBR lists are being replaced by wishlists as people move to on-demand buying, or just-in-time buying, in the case of download-and-read ebooks and digital audio.

      A second category of unread books was holiday gift books but that habit is also fading as its being replaced by Gift Cards and digital gift cards.

      Regardless, there are still plenty of people buying books they intend to read…someday…

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