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Larry Hammer ([personal profile] larryhammer) wrote in [personal profile] truepenny 2005-09-16 08:53 pm (UTC)

<pedant> Actually, you can also call a book a "bestseller" in the US if it sells 100,000 copies. If it makes a particular bestseller list, it gets a more specific adjective: "A Podunk Picayune Best-Seller!" </pedant>

---L.
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