JANET ELDER: It's much more difficult to track an electronic book than it is to track something that is actually a physical, concrete book.</s>JANET ELDER: : But the Times is trying to track these books for the same reason it tracks conventional bestsellers.</s>JANET ELDER: People have always been interested in what their neighbors and friends were reading and have always had a voracious interest in lists like this.</s>JANET ELDER: : And the Times will begin publishing its updated bestseller lists early next year at a redesigned section of its Sunday Book Review. And presumably online.
The New York Times best-seller list is going digital. Starting early next year, it will offer a look at the best-selling electronic books.