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By: Blogging For Pay : OUPblog

Blogging For Pay : OUPblog — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:59:52 +0000

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reading about reading « Aniareads Weblog — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:49:54 +0000

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By: Ray Girvan

Ray Girvan — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:30:47 +0000

Amazon Sales Rank, which is computed hourly

The chief thing to know is that it appears to computed on very short-term sales-per-time. So even books with small sales can briefly attain very high rankings if those sales are compressed into a short period. Scammy self-published authors often exploit this phenomenon by strongly encouraging sales in a narrow time-slot so that they can claim, truthfully-if-meaninglessly, that their book was an Amazon Bestseller.

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Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:43:23 +0000

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By: parlance

parlance — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:01:16 +0000

This reminds me of the ongoing writing-related injury suffered by Ed Reardon the main character in the British radio series, “Ed Reardon’s Week”.

He has a repetitive strain injury of one finger (I forget which one) as he punches in a search each day to check the ranking of his latest book.

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Amazon Sales Rank: I'm being outsold by a book on tattoos : OUPblog « Sales — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 04:23:32 +0000

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By: mollymooly

mollymooly — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 02:15:29 +0000

On amazon, more interesting than the Sales Rank is the “Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought…” section. Your readers are quite a discerning and eclectic bunch, whereas “Mammoth Book of Tattoos” only buy books about tattoos.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:58:00 +0000

Interesting observations. For what its worth, you might want to view your sales rank through the lens of Metric Junkie. This free web service automatically tracks the hourly sales rank data Amazon provides for up to 10 books per user. This information is then presented through vibrant charts and graphs, giving you a much better understanding of what the numbers mean than what can be obtained through random sampling. By collecting all the data Amazon provides, Metric Junkie is able to estimate sales and market share for the books you track.

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