Comments on: Book Sales Rank – Understanding the Basics http://www.novelrank.com/blog/book-sales-rank-basics/ Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:38:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: admin http://www.novelrank.com/blog/book-sales-rank-basics/comment-page-1/#comment-445 admin Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:45:52 +0000 http://www.novelrank.com/blog/?p=102#comment-445 That's pretty strange Jay, and I don't have an explanation. See the blog post about MYTHS and you'll find it takes an actual sale to change salesrank, so that's strange. Maybe bookscan is incorrect. Ask your publisher to check Amazon DTP directly (now called KDP). That’s pretty strange Jay, and I don’t have an explanation. See the blog post about MYTHS and you’ll find it takes an actual sale to change salesrank, so that’s strange. Maybe bookscan is incorrect. Ask your publisher to check Amazon DTP directly (now called KDP).

]]> By: Jay http://www.novelrank.com/blog/book-sales-rank-basics/comment-page-1/#comment-442 Jay Tue, 25 Jan 2011 03:01:37 +0000 http://www.novelrank.com/blog/?p=102#comment-442 I am trying to find out whether Amazon has wrong information, or whether the sales rank is even more useless than I imagined. According to Amazon, one of my books had a sales rank on Dec. 20 of 386,000, falling to 124k the next day. Over the following month, here are some of its ranks: Dec. 25: 200k; Dec. 29: 380k; Dec. 30: 78k; Dec. 31: 107k; Jan. 3: 338k; Jan. 5: 69k (best ranking to date); Jan. 9: 362k; Jan 11: 110k; Jan. 15: 76k; Jan 17: 421k; Jan 20: 108k Not bad, I would think...but BookScan sales, which Amazon reports, state that from Dec. 20 through Jan. 20 there were...NO (0) SALES, at all. None. Based on my experience with, and what I thought I understood of, the sales ranks, this seems impossible. Amazon insists it is correct. Any thoughts? Thanks. I am trying to find out whether Amazon has wrong information, or whether the sales rank is even more useless than I imagined.

According to Amazon, one of my books had a sales rank on Dec. 20 of 386,000, falling to 124k the next day. Over the following month, here are some of its ranks: Dec. 25: 200k; Dec. 29: 380k; Dec. 30: 78k; Dec. 31: 107k; Jan. 3: 338k; Jan. 5: 69k (best ranking to date); Jan. 9: 362k; Jan 11: 110k; Jan. 15: 76k; Jan 17: 421k; Jan 20: 108k

Not bad, I would think…but BookScan sales, which Amazon reports, state that from Dec. 20 through Jan. 20 there were…NO (0) SALES, at all. None. Based on my experience with, and what I thought I understood of, the sales ranks, this seems impossible. Amazon insists it is correct.

Any thoughts? Thanks.

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