[chajin]

These days every author is "best-selling author so-and-so."

"Just tell me this, Montag, at a guess, How many literary awards were made in this country, on an average each year?...Anybody that put pen to paper was bound to win some prize someday." - Fahrenheit 451 movie

[Angelino97]

Decades ago, I read that to qualify as a bestseller, a book had to have sold at least 50,000 hardback copies or 250,000 mass market paperbacks.

Today on Amazon, a book that sells in double digits will make some list or other