tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7599839745127552149.post4213260884222909861..comments2013-11-14T15:06:05.070-08:00Comments on David Gilmore's Blog: Short Story, The Dead Should Stay Dead, Now Published & Sales RankAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14326224688826179127noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7599839745127552149.post-43022130349986007392013-04-25T09:31:11.040-07:002013-04-25T09:31:11.040-07:00True enough. I&#39;ve been checking my sales ranki...True enough. I&#39;ve been checking my sales ranking regularly, but I think I&#39;m going to have to knock it on the head a bit. The sales rank checking, social networking and everything else is not helping me sit down and write. ;) To work through the groaning stages of a early project.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14326224688826179127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7599839745127552149.post-35130224183175651282013-04-25T09:25:03.458-07:002013-04-25T09:25:03.458-07:00I&#39;ve been taking note of it for 18 months now,...I&#39;ve been taking note of it for 18 months now, because I look at the ratings of all my books nearly every day, and i know what each jump in sales means; I also look at the ratings of the books of friends that I know the sales of. As it&#39;s all relative to what everyone else is selling, and how many books are on sale (which increases every week and is likely to carry on doing so) it&#39;s pretty meaningless anyway. Terry Tylerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15077413235902203848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7599839745127552149.post-50722725385498521802013-04-25T03:53:59.282-07:002013-04-25T03:53:59.282-07:00Thank you for the well wishes and for commenting, ...Thank you for the well wishes and for commenting, Terry!<br /><br />Interesting thoughts regarding the sales rank on Amazon. I looked into it prior to publishing and then afterwards when I was puzzled that my account was still only showing 3 sales.<br /><br />At least my experience can stop others getting excited anyway, hopefully. :)<br /><br />And yep, your first paragraph is bang on for sure.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14326224688826179127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7599839745127552149.post-78330601720884995602013-04-25T01:44:33.807-07:002013-04-25T01:44:33.807-07:00My explanation/take on the Amazon chart. Genre ch...My explanation/take on the Amazon chart. Genre charts mean very little. You can be at #1000 in the overall chart but not be in any genre chart at all, if your book falls in a very crowded genre like crime/thriller, or contemporary fiction. Or you can be at #120,000 and still manage to get into the Top 100 of a very sparsely populated genre, like Sci Fi comedy, or Parody <br /><br />All an overall rating of 20 or 30K means is that you&#39;ve sold one or two that day, depending on where you were before. Actually, the ratings don&#39;t mean a great deal anyway. You can sell 50 of one book in a month, but if you don&#39;t sell a book for 36 hours it can then appear lower down the chart than a book that has sold only 6 that month, two of which have been on that particular day. <br /><br />Once you get higher than 10K in the overall chart you can sell 3 books in an hour, and only move up to 9K. However, once you drop down as far as 200K you can not sell a book for yet another week, and still only fall down by 2K. Your chart position is only relevant to how many have sold that hour, that&#39;s all, and in relation to everything else. You get a rise of about 1 or 2K if you get a new review, I think, I&#39;m not sure about &#39;likes&#39;. <br /><br />A year ago a ranking of 20K meant that you hadn&#39;t sold a book for about 4 days, but now the market is so flooded it means you&#39;ve just sold!!<br /><br />Best of luck with your writing career, David :)Terry Tylerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15077413235902203848noreply@blogger.com
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