Word: kanfer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kanfer first turned his attention from print to print-outs more than a year ago, when he asked John P. Dessauer, a leading book industry statistician, how TIME could have the nation's most accurate bestseller list. With advice from the American Booksellers Association, Dessauer devised a sample of some 1,200 stores in cities across the U.S., balanced according to location, type of store and local sales volume. The group includes dozens of independent shops and mini-chains, the two largest U.S. booksellers (B. Dalton and Walden) and one middle-sized national chain (Brentano's). Each participating...
...this week's chart-led by Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Identity (fiction) and Milton and Rose Friedman's Free to Choose (nonfiction) -TIME'S bestseller list enters the computer age. The new literary hit parade, product of an extensive study by Books Editor Stefan Kanfer, is based on the most representative sample of U.S. bookstores ever constructed and on retail sales figures for each title, reported to the penny...
...Stefan Kanfer...