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| | Bestseller - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | A bestseller is a book that is identified as extremely popular by its inclusion on lists of currently top selling titles that are based on publishing industry and booktrade figures and published by newspapers, magazines, or bookstore chains. |
 | | The term bestseller, has a relatively modern etymological origin since it was first used in 1889, but the phenomenon of immediate popularity goes back to the early days of mass production of printed books. |
 | | Since effective copyright was slow to take hold, many editions were pirated (in modern terms) well into the period of the Enlightenment, and without effective royalty systems in place, authors often saw little, if any, of the revenues for their popular works. |
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