{"id":853,"date":"2009-04-10T06:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T06:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/2009\/04\/10\/amazon-sales-rankings\/"},"modified":"2009-04-10T06:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T06:06:00","slug":"amazon-sales-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/2009\/04\/10\/amazon-sales-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Sales Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/newguydave.livejournal.com\/\"><b>Dave Fortier<\/b><\/a> provided some links to explain the Mystery That Is Amazon Sales Ranking.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Amazon&#8217;s algorithm for sales ranking is complicated and some recent attempts to extrapolate the data have <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fonerbooks.com\/surfing.htm\"><b> yielded some basic guidelines.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Discusses approximate sales from sales ranking. Here he mentions that a book needs to sell a copy a year on Amazon, through Amazon direct or a marketplace merchant, to have an approximate sales rank of 2,000,000. Less than a sale a year results in a larger number, or a worse ranking. A book without a sales ranking has yet to make a sale.  <\/p>\n<p>Similarly, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/expertarticles\/2006\/06\/15\/navigating-the-amazon-sales-ranking\"><b> Brent Sampson<\/b><\/a> yields this list:<\/p>\n<p>2,000,000+ Perhaps a single inventory\/consignment copy has been ordered <br \/>1,000,000+ Current trends indicate total sales will most likely be under 40 <br \/>100,000+ Current trends indicate total sales will most likely be under 200 <br \/>10,000+ Estimate between 1 &#8211; 10 copies being sold per week. <br \/>1,000+ Estimate between 10 &#8211; 100 copies being sold per week. <br \/>100+ Estimate between 100 &#8211; 200 copies being sold per week. <br \/>10+ Estimate between 200 &#8211; 1000 copies being sold per week. <br \/>Under 10 Estimate over 1,000 copies per week<\/p>\n<p>But again, being listed does not guarantee sales, and potential sales don&#8217;t pay your bills.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Fortier provided some links to explain the Mystery That Is Amazon Sales Ranking. Amazon&#8217;s algorithm for sales ranking is complicated and some recent attempts to extrapolate the data have yielded some basic guidelines. Discusses approximate sales from sales ranking. Here he mentions that a book needs to sell a copy a year on Amazon, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,325,348],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-marketing","category-money"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}