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by rahimnathwani 1374 days ago
Before you try to try to interpret these numbers, you should be aware:

- the numbers are a for a 12 month period of sales, not for books published in a particular 12 month period (see below for why this matters)

- some of those books were published near the start of the 12 month period, so the count represents their first 52 weeks of sales

- some of the books were published in the last week or the 12 month period, so the count represents their first couple of weeks of sales

- some of the books were published almost a year before the start of the period, in which case the count represents the number of sales within the last couple of weeks of their first year of sales (sales >12 months after publishing don't count as 'frontlist' so aren't included in these numbers)

tl;dr the % figures towards the bottom of the list are probably too pessimistic