8 May 2017
Three months ago, The New York Times cut 10 categories from its Best Sellers list, including manga, paperback and hardcover graphic novels, children's middle grade paperbacks and ebooks, young adult paperbacks and ebooks, ebook fiction and nonfiction, and paperback mass-market fiction. There are still 14 categories, including hardcover and paperback fiction, other children's categories, and business books.
The literary world panicked, concerned that the loss would hurt their sales and make it even more difficult for smaller publishers, niche genres, and new authors. Now that some time has passed, the results of that change are starting to show.
