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Tom Elkins
Wandering Member
Post Number:
174
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, July 21, 2005 - 04:22 am: |   |
Hey, maybe somebody can explain this to me. For 18 months my book had an Amazon sales ranking between 2.0 and 2.5 milliion. Pretty dismal. A couple of weeks ago it jumped to 1.1 to 1.2 million. Not exactly best-seller material, but it looks like a significant move. Is it? Do Amazon rankings make any sense to anybody?
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Tom Elkins
NORTH of TEXAS |
Todd Hunter
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
2634
Registered: 02-2003
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, July 21, 2005 - 04:55 am: | |
Amazon rankings have been discussed many times on this site (quite a bit on the Publishing board)...one of the best explanations, given through a link, was here, in my opinion. It comes complete with a chart at the bottom.
For a ranking in the 1 millions, you're probably around 3 copies every 500 days. Most likely that means you've sold 2-3 copies (since a 2 million ranking is 1 copy in 1000 days) in the past year-and-a-half...
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Tom Elkins
Wandering Member
Post Number:
175
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, July 21, 2005 - 08:28 am: | |
Thanks. (I think).
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Tom Elkins
NORTH of TEXAS |
Stacy Anderson
Wandering Member
Post Number:
172
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, July 21, 2005 - 11:14 am: | |
Hi Tom,
I've heard that some publishers and record companies pay for their books/albums to be ranked at certain positions on Amazon. You know like publishers pay for their author's books to be placed on the center table at Barnes and Noble? Similar to that. They know Amazon is where most of the customers go for just about everything so they navigate it. There is a lot of underhanded strategies going on in the industry so I don't put any stock in a lot of things, including Amazon rankings. Every time I ASSUMED something was on the straight and narrow in this business I turn around and find out it's not. I think that's why Amazon's nickname is Scamazon, LOL. I'd believe Barnes and Noble's rankings before Amazon's. They seem real. They don't jump up and down every two days either. With Amazon I always find myself wondering if half the books and albums they claim are selling, are.
Stacy
http://www.stacy-deanne.net |
Fred Dungan
Unity Member
Post Number:
1139
Registered: 10-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, July 21, 2005 - 12:22 pm: | |
And, of course, no publisher in this industry would stoop so low as to cook the books and cheat an author out of his/her hard-earned royalties.
http://www.fdungan.com/vigilantes.htm |
Alphabeter
Wandering Member
Post Number:
162
Registered: 07-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, July 23, 2005 - 06:08 am: | |
Fred, you sound jaded.
Have you been lurking in Maryland again?
*snerk*
Joy*
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Tom Elkins
Wandering Member
Post Number:
177
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, July 23, 2005 - 07:34 am: | |
Gee, and none of us authors would ever order our own books, and enlist friends to do it, to hype our rankings. Would we?
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Tom Elkins
NORTH of TEXAS |
Alphabeter
Wandering Member
Post Number:
166
Registered: 07-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, July 24, 2005 - 09:46 am: | |
Not unless our last name is Meiner or
Joy*
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Dennis Collins
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
1686
Registered: 06-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 11, 2006 - 08:11 am: | |
A customer review FINALLY showed up for "Turn Left at September" over at Amazon. It's not real descriptive about the plot but the last line is worth a million bucks. (Well maybe a hunnert)
Dennis Collins
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Claudia Turner VanLydegraf
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
2456
Registered: 06-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 11, 2006 - 09:38 am: | |
great review, Dennis..... like you said, the last three sentences were fantastic. And your sales ranking ain't to shabby neither, good buddy. Seems to be selling a bit according to the numbers.
I also sort of saw that a snippet of my review was in there under editorial reviews.
Claudia
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