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Double Dragon Publishing is showing strongly in the recent Preditors and Editors Readers' Choice Poll. Deron is ranked in the top ten e-publishers. (Voting continues until Jan. 14 2004) So if you care for me just tiny weeny (sic) bit vote for Deron or else! There are cash prizes for the highest popular vote!
Within the past year, the world has successfully moved Online! from a sales rank of two-million to a tri-digit 777. I don't know how you did it, or how this new math works, but thanks. By the end of the year, my palm hopes to be somewhere in between Living History and Bin Ladin's Berate Your Way To Oblivion.
Every book that has sold at least one copy at Amazon is automatically assigned a sales rank. Don't argue that statistics aren't perfect, they're much better than nothing. Still, are too many books falling off the log and drowning in a crowded river?
Surfing the Amazon on a Log
This article is based on my six years of experience surfing the Amazon, and if I never caught the perfect wave, at least the piranhas didn't eat me. The Amazon, Tropical River for some, Cold River for others, renews itself hour by hour, day by day, a rich, nearly inexhaustible flow of the stuff we can't live without. Yet the Amazon is unknowable, at least to those of us who exist outside the corporate headwaters, and we can only guess at her secrets based on clues wrested from her by patient observation. The Amazon showers millions with her bounty and provides employment for countless teamsters, however our interest as writers is in what those damn sales ranks and bestseller lists really mean.
The Hottest Thing In Downloads - Books Download fever sweeps the nation, audio stores are the hottest thing on the Internet, and this week's hottest track is ... 'Hegemony or Survival,' by Noam Chomsky? That's right. The killa, must-have MP3 is thrown down by an MIT linguistics professor, at least if you spend time in the expanding universe of downloaded audiobooks.
· What Amazon Sales Ranks Mean: Siberia cometh? [ via Amazon Wishlist]
· Sales Rank and/or price: this Service is intended only for personal use [ courtesy of Double Dragon: Canadian Stalking on Amazon.com ]
· Scotland: Land Of Publishing Opportunity [ courtesy of Marx Brothers: Sensing opportunity & Fun]
NB: The Amazon.com Sales Rank is a bestseller list much like the Media Dragon bestseller list, except instead of listing just the top 50 or so titles, it lists more than two million. The lower the number, the lower the sales for that particular title? (smile)
A war is being waged between Cold (War) River and literary fiction. In this increasingly aliterate society - acrawl with people who can read but don't - the battle for readers is a high-stakes campaign. Publishers - and writers - are caught up in definitions of literary success...