Publisher’s Weekly has an interesting piece The Run-up to Christmas: A Bookseller Survey, which interviews independent booksellers across the country about their picks for what is going to be popular this holiday season. I always like looking at bookseller lists vs best of the year lists because they are often so different. It is rather like collection development in general as we struggle to have both the popular and the high quality titles. This is one easy way to take a look at popularity in places other than Amazon and Barnes & Noble.