Books or products that sell more copies than almost all others; the most popular items in a category.
A compound of 'best' and 'seller,' which became a unified concept in the early 1900s with book publishing. The term emerged as the publishing industry grew and wanted to track which books sold most copies.
The word 'bestseller' was invented by the book publishing industry in the early 1900s to market books, and it's such an effective term that it literally influences what people buy—knowing something is a bestseller makes people more likely to buy it, so a marketing term actually changed human buying behavior!
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