Bestseller
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A bestseller is a book that is identified as extremely popular. The New York Times Best Seller list is one of the best-known bestseller lists for the US. An early European best seller was Letters of a Portuguese Nun.
Bestsellers tend not to be books considered of superior academic value or literary quality, though there are many exceptions. Lists simply give the highest-selling titles in the category over the stated period.
Particularly in the case of novels, a large budget, and a chain of literary agents, editors, publishers, reviewers, retailers, and marketing efforts are involved in "making" bestsellers.
In other media
Blockbusters for films and chart-toppers in recorded music are similar terms, although, in film and music, these measures generally are related to industry sales figures for attendance, requests, broadcast plays, or units sold.
History of the bestseller
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