Re: Kindle Store sales report software glitch?

Thanks, Liz, but what your actually saying here is that there IS a relationship between sales 
ranks and sales reports.  I agree that books can move up and down the ladder in hours on 
the basis of a single copy sold.  What I'm talking about is books moving up the ladder 
many more times than can be accounted for by the number of copies sold.  Your example 
concerns a print book.  I'm not questioning the accuracy of my LSI sales reports for my 
POD books sold on Amazon because with them I see a definite relationship between sales 
rank moves and copies sold.  It's my Kindle editions where I'm not seeing this.

John

--- In [email protected], Elizabeth Burton <EBurton@...> wrote:
>
> John,
> 
> Sales rankings and sales reports ARE two totally different things.  
> Amazon sales rankings are a fluid system based on a raft of  
> complicated and somewhat esoteric criteria that can have a book moving  
> up and down the ladder from one hour to the next--on the basis of a  
> single copy sold. They are a good marketing tool but otherwise  
> essentially meaningless.
> 
> Case in point: one of my people set a specific day and time and asked  
> everyone who planned to buy his book to purchase it during that period  
> at Amazon. At the end of the specified time period, his ranking had  
> gone from the 100K level to just over 2,900. Total number of books  
> sold: 31.
> 
> So, don't lose any sleep over the apparent discrepancy. The two things  
> have only a distant relationship to each other.
> 
> Liz
> 
> 
> Elizabeth Burton, Executive Editor
> Zumaya Publications LLC
> Opening Doors to the Creative Mind
> http://www.zumayapublications.com
>




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