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Post by papaof2 on Dec 4, 2021 4:15:56 GMT -6
Amazon has an estimated 7 million book titles available, so it's impressive when a book gets in the top 100,000 of "Best Sellers Rank" in the Kindle Store or the top 5,000 of any given book category. At 5AM on 4 Dec 2021, "The Coming Storms" looks like this: www.amazon.com/dp/B09KBP63LX ASIN : B09KBP63LX Publication date : October 25, 2021 Language : English Best Sellers Rank: #59,218 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #1,634 in Action Thriller Fiction #2,596 in Thriller & Suspense Action Fiction #5,946 in Thrillers (Kindle Store) Customer Reviews: 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings Thank you to my loyal readers.
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Post by CountryGuy on Dec 19, 2021 18:39:16 GMT -6
Amazon has an estimated 7 million book titles available, so it's impressive when a book gets in the top 100,000 of "Best Sellers Rank" in the Kindle Store or the top 5,000 of any given book category.
At 5AM on 4 Dec 2021, "The Coming Storms" looks like this:
www.amazon.com/dp/B09KBP63LX
ASIN : B09KBP63LX Publication date : October 25, 2021 Language : English Best Sellers Rank: #59,218 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #1,634 in Action Thriller Fiction #2,596 in Thriller & Suspense Action Fiction #5,946 in Thrillers (Kindle Store)
Customer Reviews: 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
Thank you to my loyal readers.Cool, so how many downloads was there of your story to get that sort of ranking?
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Post by papaof2 on Dec 19, 2021 19:07:55 GMT -6
Amazon uses some type of rolling algorithm, as a book's place can change in a matter of minutes. It appears to be based not on total sales but on sales in the last X hours plus last Y days plus last Z weeks (months?). Based on 7 million books (last count I had - possibly 8 or 9 million now) if the book's sales position is under 700,000 it's in the top 10% of sales at that moment of ranking. If the sales position is under 70,000 it's in the top 1% of sales at that moment of ranking.
Some of the things that were useful for determining the total number of books on Amazon and the number of books in a specific category are no longer part of their web page data for each book.
Think of it as more of a speed contest of "How fast is this book selling?" than a quantity contest of "How many of these books have we sold?" That ranking was given with less than 30 books sold, so it was all about how fast they were moving off the shelf.
Month-to-date statistics from Amazon (actually a good month, compared to the summer):
An Accidental Family B01LVU5ILA 1 In the Dark B07YCZ33XB 1 Jack's War: Book 1 B073Q4HFMG 1 Jack's War: Book 2 B093F1W1M1 6 The Coming Storms B09KBP63LX 12 The Recycled Homestead B07YBRGDDT 3 The Waif - Book 2 B0822ZC4MF 1 The Waif: Treasure Hunt B07YD1SXD1 1
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Post by papaof2 on Feb 25, 2022 11:22:24 GMT -6
The latest book "Care and Feeding of a PAW Fiction Writer's Muse" is a collection of things I'd posted here about my less-than-consistent muses plus some "glue" to hold the pieces together. With Amazon having a currently estimated 9,000,000 books available, today's ranking of # 276,224 puts the book just shy of the top 3% of sales and in the top 5,000 in several categories: www.jecarter.us/files/care-and-feeding-25-feb-2022.jpgThank you, loyal readers.
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