Bestseller Lists and Product Variety: The Case of Book Sales
Preprint
- 1 January 2004
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier BV in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
This paper uses detailed weekly data on sales of hardcover fiction books to evaluate the impact of the New York Times bestseller list on sales and product varieKeywords
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