Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Washington Post Revises a Year's Worth of Best-Seller Lists, Assures Us the Problem Will Not Recur- The Digital Reader



Panzer was tootling around in the Catosphere when the Panzermobile was suddenly buffeted by crying and screaming outside. Following all the noise took our brave kitty boy to The Digital Reader site. There with a little digging he found a post about the Washington Post's bestseller lists.

Believe me. This is not good.
According to The Digital Reader site owner Nate Hoffelder, the Washington Post discovered a problem with their bestseller lists. The company's software was supposed to combine data from BookScan and Amazon to determine their bestseller lists. Turns out the software's computations and, therefore, their book placements and rankings were wrong. The Washington Post has redone all the bestseller lists from May 2018 forward and posted them on their website. There are links included in the post to the Washington Post site.

Panzer says, "Hmm ... This little kitty thinks there are some unhappy former number one bestselling authors out there."

Note: This is a medium length post. Bring a cup of tea for today's reading selection. If you plan to follow the links in the post, bring a half thermos of tea and two muffins.

To read the post tootle over to Washington Post

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