The Help
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Read on Hacker News…imes bestseller lists both identify and anoint winners in the publishing markets, which are winners-take-most games where the head vastly outsells the tail. You can read them online. You can also search for books on Amazon. Combining these two processes in a revolutionary way produces the following: Fiction: The Lost Symbol (Dan Brown): KINDLE I, ALEX CROSS, by James Patterson: KINDLE UNDER THE DOME, by Stephen King -- no kindle THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett: KINDLE U IS FOR UNDERTOW, by Sue Grafton: KINDLE PIRATE LATITUDES, by Michael Crichton: KINDLE FORD COUNTY, by John Grisham -- no kindle THE LAST SONG, by Nicholas Sparks -- KINDLE THE CHRISTMAS SWEATER, by Glenn Beck et al -- no kindle THE LACUNA, by Barbara Kingsolver -- no kindle So, to a first approximation, I'm going to guess that in excess of 60% of titles sold in the United St…
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