tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11291165.post112498028963209462..comments2024-03-28T02:00:11.260-05:00Comments on A Newbie's Guide to Publishing: Trekking the AmazonJA Konrathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08778324558755151986noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11291165.post-1125814298188933582005-09-04T01:11:00.000-05:002005-09-04T01:11:00.000-05:00I recently read about somebody lining up enough pe...I recently read about somebody lining up enough people to buy their book on Amazon at the same time to make it an Amazon bestseller. I forget how many books they needed to sell at once to reach the topspots, but it wasn't nearly as many as you might think.<BR/><BR/>Far more important to concentrate on writing a new book than to obssess about things like rankings.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11291165.post-1125516505413431782005-08-31T14:28:00.000-05:002005-08-31T14:28:00.000-05:00Joe. Your research has reinforced my decision to n...Joe. Your research has reinforced my decision to never even bother once to look at my Amazon ranking once Night Laws comes out.Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01234972022475955356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11291165.post-1125465572275890112005-08-31T00:19:00.000-05:002005-08-31T00:19:00.000-05:00You sure you don't mean Area 51?You sure you don't mean Area 51?Rob Gregory Brownehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11952008139132652259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11291165.post-1125409518880007002005-08-30T08:45:00.000-05:002005-08-30T08:45:00.000-05:00Rob is partially right. The numbers are really qui...Rob is partially right. The numbers are really quite easy to understand. You just have to convert them from base 11.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11291165.post-1125346566919061842005-08-29T15:16:00.000-05:002005-08-29T15:16:00.000-05:00And here I thought becoming a writer meant I didn'...And here I thought becoming a writer meant I didn't have to do math anymore.<BR/><BR/>Maybe the people at Amazon exist in a parallel reality with a completely different set of numeric values.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04914329013690756540noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11291165.post-1125315867359151262005-08-29T06:44:00.000-05:002005-08-29T06:44:00.000-05:00I really know nothing about Amazon rankings, but i...I really know nothing about Amazon rankings, but it seems to me that as their data entry folk kept their little fingers busy on the keyboards entering new books, whether they sold copies or not, it would affect the rankings overall of everybody above and below. Right? You're 298,299 of 1,547,879 books, but they enter 6 more books, for 1,547,885, and one of them is Stephen King's and one of them is, uh, Mark Terry's, and your numbers changes. Or maybe not. <BR/><BR/>Best,<BR/>Mark TerryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11291165.post-1125280274134779822005-08-28T20:51:00.000-05:002005-08-28T20:51:00.000-05:00I'm hearing more and more that the Amazon rankings...I'm hearing more and more that the Amazon rankings mean absolutely nothing. I also know that many authors become obsessed with them, checking them several times a day.<BR/><BR/>Please, keep me from falling into that trap. I don't want to read reviews and I don't want to check those rankings.<BR/><BR/>But, of course, I'll do both.Rob Gregory Brownehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11952008139132652259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11291165.post-1125263510716367152005-08-28T16:11:00.000-05:002005-08-28T16:11:00.000-05:00Mary and I have never been able to find any correl...Mary and I have never been able to find any correlation between our books' sales and Amazon rankings, and this despite the fact that being published by an indie we sell less via bookstores and presumably a larger percentage online. In fact the last book sold better than the previous but didn't get anywhere near as high on Amazon. It is fun to watch Amazon numbers though because it is proof that someone is paying attention. As an author it is hard to get applause but you can always go to Amazon and see proof that someone's paying attention. :)<BR/><BR/>I have also never been able to correlate Ingram numbers with total sales, although I'd guess they're a better indicator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com