New York Times Best Seller List and Billboard Top 40 were the Original Digg Homepage
I was reading a post earlier this week by Seth Godin about the New York Times Bestseller List and was reminded how social media sites like Digg, Reddit, Propeller really aren’t a shift in the way of thinking and doing things, they are just a shift in the places it gets done.
Book authors and publishers all want to be on the New York Times Best Seller List, the simple act of being on the list is going to guarantee you have book sales. Artists and record companies used to strive to be on the Billboard Top 40 (now the billboard top 100) for the same reason. Getting yourself into the list, got you into the playlist rotation on top 40 radio stations, getting you exposure and guaranteeing you sales.
The problem is of course the lists are lies. They aren’t accurate, they are biased by sampling and reporting stores. Knowing which […]
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