Dept of What Does It All Mean

Courtesy Booknoise, here's a great web page for anyone who's ever had a book listed on Amazon.com: What Amazon Sales Ranks mean, by Morris Rosenthal. He's writing from the perspective of someone who self-publishes books that are then listed on the online retailer, but for people like me who are (so far) published by small presses and whose Amazon numbers are usually around 350,000 (or, yikes, today #947,784) it gives a good idea of just how many books are being sold. Rosenthal also offers the interesting tidbit that Amazon now includes "marketplace" sales, i.e. the sales of used books listed on Amazon by "marketplace" affiliates.

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