OK my Kindle Bestseller page is back up Treva!
Until they fuck it up again people so go and enjoy the Amazon Kindle rankings per your ePublisher.
Only writers and industry types allowed. All you readers probably own all these eBooks already so go away and let the industry types nod knowingly over the rankings to themselves.
Shoo! Shoo!
Tags: eBook Commentary
Treva Harte wrote,
Thank you, dear. I’d be lost without you.
Link | April 27th, 2011 at 6:39 am
TeddyPig wrote,
Oh please! I just knew you liked em.
Link | April 27th, 2011 at 6:40 am
Treva Harte wrote,
I don’t watch them obsessively but I do enjoy checking in.
Link | April 27th, 2011 at 6:43 am
Sunita wrote,
Feel free to shoo me away. Just a reader.
But looking at these lists, if anyone wants proof that m/m is read primarily by women, there you go.
Not saying that gay men don’t read m/m as well. But given these authors & these titles (at least the ones I recognize), I’m betting the readership is primarily women.
And I am *such* an outlier.
Link | April 27th, 2011 at 7:41 am
TeddyPig wrote,
Sunita it was a joke. I make those when talking about Amazon stats because they are such an illusion. You honestly have to watch them everyday to observe what is a freak sales spike and what constitutes steady consistent sales by an author.
They are also relative to other sales that day so the actual underlying numbers generating the rankings can mean different things different days.
People get too carried away in what they really mean and after all these years even I am not totally sure.
Link | April 27th, 2011 at 7:59 am
Sunita wrote,
I took it as a joke. :-) But I am very ignorant about these things, so my modesty was for real.
I agree w/comments here and elsewhere that these are snapshots of just one seller (albeit a huge one) and a lot of people buy from other places, the pubs themselves, etc. But it’s still striking to me that I can only find a couple of authors I read regularly on those lists.
I have a bad feeling that you’ve given me another way to procrastinate with that website.
Link | April 27th, 2011 at 8:08 am
TeddyPig wrote,
Well I will say this Sunita. The Kindle currently wags the publishers.
They just do not want you to know that YET.
But it is happening very quickly so feel free to keep looking at these.The authors themselves are reporting that these sales numbers are starting to reflect reality.
Link | April 27th, 2011 at 8:14 am
TeddyPig wrote,
One guesstimate I have read that sounds decent is this…
Give or take 3 copies sold per day IF the sales rank stays consistently at or slightly above 7000.
But take that with a grain of salt. NovelRank or RankTracer might beg to differ.
Link | April 27th, 2011 at 9:26 am
Merrian wrote,
What interesting reading when I think of the variety of m/m reviewed on jessewave’s blog and the different books released by Loose Id and Samhain each week and how this variety is not represented here. Samhain has their own top 10 best sellers shown on their store website which I think is an accurate representation of their sales patterns. I have seen top bestseller lists on other e-presses and just don’t believe them. e.g. the same books by the same author week after week despite a pretty prolific list of new publications. It is the wild west I suppose and robber barons rule.
Link | April 28th, 2011 at 2:14 am
TeddyPig wrote,
Right but how many people spend the time to buy directly from the ePub website and how many people do not bother and just hit the buy it now button on their Kindle?
I bet you more people that have Kindles go the lazy route and just buy through Amazon.
So there is that and the fact that some authors are just on everyone’s auto buy list where as new authors are not.
Link | April 28th, 2011 at 3:03 am
Merrian wrote,
Thinking about what you say about kindle and of course I live in Australia home of the geo-restriction so for us there is more often than not, no insta-buying happening. I am also not a Kindle owner and Kobo between the geo-restrictions and the agency pricing doesn’t have the range, so I am going on as I began dealing with the small presses. I think the issue isn’t people like you and me who read lots of books all the time but those who read a few – they will be the one click people always. I also don’t buy books unless there is an excerpt I can read, so I don’t think one click works for me.
Link | April 28th, 2011 at 5:29 pm
TeddyPig wrote,
Kobo seems a good non-US oriented alternative and it is cheap. IF I was looking at eInk readers they have a decent one and at a very reasonable price.
Anyway, I may dislike them but those readers are what is making the publishing world turn right now and everyday more are being sold and another reader starts using that “buy it now” button and that makes for another potential eBook reader for these small ePubs.
Link | April 28th, 2011 at 7:15 pm
KB/KT Grant wrote,
This is awesome! Was blown away to find out my ranking in the US and the UK for The Princess’s Bride :)
Link | April 29th, 2011 at 7:43 pm
TeddyPig wrote,
Link | April 29th, 2011 at 9:10 pm
KB/KT Grant wrote,
I knew about Novel Rank, which I use, but this is awesome as well. :)
Link | April 30th, 2011 at 6:33 am