Why Doesn’t Sci-Fi Hit the Bestseller Lists?

Sci-fi readers often deplore book best-seller lists — because review editors actively ignore many sci-fi sales, since they don’t consider that stuff popular, even though sci-fi titles often sell in far greater numbers than serious highbrow literature. But this all might change soon, with the launch of Bookscan; new technology that tracks actual sales at the cash register with greater precision than ever before — via Slashdot