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Sales must be submitted weekly through our web interface, or via a file submitted weekly from a point-of-sale system (POS) system or -other automated method using one of the standard reporting formats.
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When sales come from:
- your corporate/ecommerce e-commerce website
- publisher-run author events (no retailer intermediary)
- institutional sales for trade titles (not proprietary or custom published institutional sales)
- any other direct-to-consumer sale of trade titles
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Bestseller Lists
Publisher-reported direct sales will only count towards bestseller lists under the following conditions:
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