There are numbers for just about everything, and those reading this blog likely have some specific numbers in mind: sales of their books. Amazon's rankings have a complex algorithm for arriving at these figures, and this can become confusing to those who want the facts about their book sales.
With related articles by Chris Anderson, Steven Dubner, Brent Sampson, and Dog Ear Publishing, Future Perfect Publishing gives a great overview of Amazon's method in a post at their blog.
The best part of the article is that it eventually steers you even further away from confusion by offering some tools for how to accurately monitor your sales. Enlightening and helpful.
Comments (1)
While amazon rankings can be interesting to monitor, they don't exactly reflect the real world, do they? What percentage of domestic sales does amazon generally fulfill versus the brick and mortars and outlets such as 800CEO?
Posted by Anonymous | March 8, 2008 4:13 AM
Posted on March 8, 2008 04:13