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Thank you We sneak in Bestsellers categories Eyelash mints what

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categories do the charts sort bestsellers into So fiction and

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nonfiction our basic hardcover and paperback are two other ways

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of organizing those categories because hard cover books are the

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very brand new books and then paperbacks might be a

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second edition of something that was popular before and then

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within those categories you have you know advice and self

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help or how to you have children's books you have

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young adult novels you have science fiction any kind of

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genre probably has its own bestseller list category How do

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books get organized within the different categories There's a lot

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of debate about what to include in which category so

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the new york times really famously created a children's book

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category after books from the harry potter series had been

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number one number two and number three on their best

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selling fiction books it's for like years they were basically

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said the's books can't dominate the charts forever what's different

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about them Okay we're going to call these children's books

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And likewise young adult fiction often talks about very serious

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issues but because it's a different market and it sells

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differently it has its own list What categories do the

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charts sort bestsellers into How do books get organized within 00:01:42.516 --> [endTime] the different categories

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