Fun With Numbers

If you haven't yet noticed, Jason updates the store's bestseller list every week. It's located on the sidebar to the left. For the past several weeks it has been mostly the same titles jockeying back and forth (although Sex, Drugs & Cocoa Puffs is FAR AND AWAY the consistent # 1. Still.) Jason and I were talking yesterday about what an odd list it is. There can't be any other store in the country whose bestsellers are the same as ours, and WE LOVE THAT. It's one of the things, I think, that makes indies so cool. Probably every store has a unique bestseller list that reflects its staff and its customers. And I know we wouldn't want it any other way. Our list is so "High Culture to Subculture" it's almost funny. How often does Orwell rub up against Klosterman? And V for Vendetta in the same room as Better Off? Cool. And who on earth sells as many copies of Hesse's Fairy Tales as we do? That one stumps us every week.

---Kelly