• Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    They only started doing that within the last 5-10 years iirc though

    And the list isn’t purely sales numbers anyway as they admitted in the 80s in a legal case. It isn’t mathematically objective but rather done on a subjective editorial scale. They choose which books to have on a subjective scale that doesn’t even have to take sales into account.