'Times' Best-Seller List Branches Out To E-Books
The New York Times best-seller list is going digital. Starting early next year, it will offer a look at the best-selling electronic books.
: The New York Times has announced it will soon publish bestseller lists for electronic books - you know, the e-books that you might read on Amazon's Kindle or an iPad or other devices. It took a while for the New York Times to figure out how to track those book sales, as Janet Elder of the Times explains.
JANET ELDER: It's much more difficult to track an electronic book than it is to track something that is actually a physical, concrete book.
: But the Times is trying to track these books for the same reason it tracks conventional bestsellers.
ELDER: People have always been interested in what their neighbors and friends were reading and have always had a voracious interest in lists like this.
: And the Times will begin publishing its updated bestseller lists early next year at a redesigned section of its Sunday Book Review. And presumably online.
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