Comments on: I’m an Amazon addict … https://www.jenniferestep.com/im-an-amazon-addict/ New York Times & USA Today Bestselling Author Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:03:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Jennifer Estep https://www.jenniferestep.com/im-an-amazon-addict/#comment-380 Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:03:30 +0000 https://www.jenniferestep.com/blog/?p=103#comment-380 Basically, I think it’s the more books you sell in an hour, the higher your ranking goes. So, if you get all your friends and family to order copies at the same time, you could probably push your rank into the top 100 or something. Not that I’m going to do that or anything …

]]> By: Meljean https://www.jenniferestep.com/im-an-amazon-addict/#comment-378 Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:56:11 +0000 https://www.jenniferestep.com/blog/?p=103#comment-378 I did this, but ultimately became very frustrated with it. Two weeks before my book release, I went from #500,000ish to #3,000 in one day, then up to #80,000, then down to #8,000 the next — and my book has sold out of stock there twice, and both times I was around #40,000 again. So I don’t know how they compute the numbers, and how it translates to sales.

]]> By: Jennifer Estep https://www.jenniferestep.com/im-an-amazon-addict/#comment-370 Thu, 18 Jan 2007 15:38:22 +0000 https://www.jenniferestep.com/blog/?p=103#comment-370 Hi, Pansy. Thanks for the links, especially the one that explains the sales numbers. That was really informative. I’ll definitely check out your site.

Right now, I just want people to try the book. If they like it, hopefully, they’ll tell their friends about it, and then that will translate into solid sales figures. 😉

]]> By: Pansy Flox https://www.jenniferestep.com/im-an-amazon-addict/#comment-367 Thu, 18 Jan 2007 01:44:32 +0000 https://www.jenniferestep.com/blog/?p=103#comment-367 Hi Jennifer,

You don’t need to go to Amazon every few minutes to check your sales rank. Just add your book to Charteous (https://charteo.us) and let it do the “looking up” for you. You should then be able to see the historical values whenever you want as nice charts.

Btw, Amazon recomputes the sales rank only once every hour. Also, you can find a nice analysis on relationship between salesrank and actual sales at https://longtail.typepad.com/the_long_tail/2005/08/a_methodology_f.html.

/Pansy

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