Re: Kindle Store sales report software glitch?

At 9:46 PM +0000 3/26/08, you wrote:
>To be honest, Kent, having published both ebooks and POD books for years I think I'm
>quite well aware of the relative sizes of the two markets. Do you have any data to back up
>your assertion that there aren't enough Kindle sales to override minor adjustments? In my
>observation, if a Kindle title's if a sales rank is 7K, 24 hours later it will be between 11K
>and 16K in the absence of sales. I'd say that indicates pretty strong sales in the Kindle
>store, and from what I've seen monitoring my titles' sales ranks, that's been pretty
>sustained for some time now. What I'm talking about is seeing a title's sales rank move up
>the ladder from 16K to 3.8K in one day but not seeing sales on the report that would
>correspond to that. I don't think returns are the issue, because my Kindle sales reports do
>show returns, and I only had one in December, not for either of my books where I saw
>consideraably more sharp moves up the ladder than the sales report listed.
>
>John
>

I probably overstated the case. I guess I thought you were looking at smaller variations in sales.

Kent


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