What Does It Mean to Have a Bestselling Book?

Amanda Steel
3 min readMay 20, 2024

And does it make a difference?

Most of us have picked up a book in a bookshop or seen someone post on social media that their book is a bestseller. But what does that really mean? Of course, for different writers, it has different meanings.

The New York Times bestseller list is one every writer dreams of getting on, but most never do. On a smaller scale, you…

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Amanda Steel

Author, editor of Printed Words, co-host of Reading in Bed (podcast). copywriter and ghostwriter. https://amandasteelwriter.wordpress.com/