Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Bestsellers?

Someone asked the other day for a website which shows bestsellers year by year. Cader Books has such a list, covering 1900-1998.
       We found this link on the Minneapolis Public Libray's Bestsellers page. In pointing to several different 'bestseller lists' they are also pointing out that there is nothing canonical about the New York Times' list. Our own "Many Holds" list, or Library Journal's weekly Books Most Borrowed in US Libraries are still other ways of approaching the topic at the core of public library service: trying to understand what people want. (And trying to give it to them.)

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