NPR Business
· May 14, 2026 9:56 PM EDT
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Here's how the NYT crafts bestseller lists — and how authors try to game them
We go inside how The New York Times crafts the powerful bestseller lists, and the history of ways authors try to game the system — and sometimes succeed.
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