It took me about 12K sales in one week (Jan 2013) to hit the list. NYT has a two week lag from the time of when the sales spiked and when they announce, so you could have fallen off by the time they tell ppl about it. It did affect my other books that were available at the time, but you have a chicken or the egg question here. Did it help b/c it was on the NYT list or was it the number of sales that got u onto the NYT list in the first place?
If we're talking about sales, the only list that I can tell actually does anything is the Amazon top 100 list. The others seem like icing. USA Today does have links on their site, the cover, and description (I made that list too, but only that 1st week. The 2nd week I sold more and fell off).
Anyway the NYT list is one of those cool things that I thought would never happen. I can say I'm a NYT author now, which might help with pulling in new readers, but I havent had anyone tell me that's why they got the book. That's nice b/c it means the playing field is leveling out.
If we're talking about sales, the only list that I can tell actually does anything is the Amazon top 100 list. The others seem like icing. USA Today does have links on their site, the cover, and description (I made that list too, but only that 1st week. The 2nd week I sold more and fell off).
Anyway the NYT list is one of those cool things that I thought would never happen. I can say I'm a NYT author now, which might help with pulling in new readers, but I havent had anyone tell me that's why they got the book. That's nice b/c it means the playing field is leveling out.
