Here is an interesting point regarding sales of books with Jewish content. I know that Hadassah has a list of top books sold by Jewish content, and we found the list is different from the books that we sell at a Judaica store where I work in Seattle. We did contact someone, and we were told that lists such as these were compiled by sales at major chains or major book stores. I wonder how much that skews the results that you are looking for. I would think that the publishers would be a better source, but they actually only know how many books that they have shipped to book sellers.
(Also, since Night by Weisel was an Oprah choice, sales jumped dramatically.) At one point, it was possible to see what the top ranked sellers were on Amazon. I just found the Jewish bestsellers there, but I could not find the rankings. I'm sure that web ordering has significantly changed the books that are sold too. Dina Tanners Seattle, WA Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
