[kernelsanderz]

This is very frustrating. From what I understand of the publishing industry, the Kindle sales are not counted towards the main NYT best-seller list, so all the focus on the initial launch is around selling the physical copy. This is said to be done to prevent gamification and manipulation, but this still goes on with the hard copies also, where would-be best-selling authors often pay third-party companies to buy a lot of copies of their books from certain bookstores.

Source: A friend of mine who has been trying to get onto the NYT best seller list.

[danso]

Ebook sales are counted as part of the NYT bestsellers list. In 2010, they initially did separate ebook listings, but it’s all combined into the general categories: https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/9/13/16257084/bestseller-li...

I can’t remember a single mainstream title that hasn’t had an ebook version for preorder and first day sales. This includes “Bad Blood”, “Super Pumped”, and “Catch and Kill”.

[Aperocky]

Not downplaying your valid point, but I doubt a guy like bwk cares about NYT best selling list at all. It’s the history of Unix, which to us folks are basically the Old Testament, props to him for writing it. I look forward to having a physical copy of it and praying to it occasionally