Sentences with phrase «sales rank»

So, avoid being mislead by a book's overall sales rank on Amazon.

Amazon pays attention to these as much as they do sales on launch day and beyond, and if you get enough of them flowing you can watch the sales rank of your book climb.

«As our publicist for a first time memoirist, Stephanie was able to facilitate placement in The Huffington Post and our title's selection as one of IndieReader's Best Books of 2011, not to mention over 15 reviews, Amazon sales rank improvement, and invitations to private & public author events with high volume traffic.

The graph below shows the sales rank in the Free Kindle Store in May and September.

So, one interview on NPR may get your sales rank on Amazon kicking up, but it won't stay there.

As a publisher, your sales rank performance will be better with the soft launch because those sales ranks feed into other metrics like the Popularity list, giving your book better visibility there even when the bestseller lists start to fade.

He didn't say how many copies he sold, but the paperback has an Amazon sales rank of over six million and the Kindle version has no sales rank.

The starting point is to look beyond a book's overall sales rank on Amazon.

The more sales a book makes, the lower the sales rank for that title.

Without your help, others would not find and enjoy the benefits of tracking their sales rank!

It might get you up above # 300 in terms of sales rank.

5) Downloads and Sales you get from our readers will increase your sales rank.

With the addition of the new Lending Library program which includes 5 days of free pricing for your kindle book, I thought it was time to write up a quick post to explain how sales rank on Amazon works in regards to free titles.

We recommend that our authors gift books via Amazon to reviewers as this helps their sales rank, and we have not yet had a problem with those reviews being pulled.

While these are both visible on Amazon directly, the Amazon API that powers the sales rank tracking of every website, including NovelRank, will not report a sales rank for free books.

This also means that if your book has a price one day, and then switches to free pricing for even just 1 day, it will no longer offer a sales rank that can be tracked until it becomes a paid title again.

You may know that a Top 100 Amazon bestseller refers to your book in a specific category, but prospect book buyers visiting your book's sales page on Amazon are unlikely to be as savvy, meaning they'll be very impressed by your book's sales rank.

The sales rank of the book currently listed as the # 20 or # 100 in a category (the corresponding sales numbers were calculated by the tool Kindle Spy) tells you what the bestselling genres are.

In less than 9 months, NovelRank has grown to track the Amazon sales rank of over 7600 books!

I just want to mention first: It's not as hard to get into the Top # 100 of the German Amazon Free Kindle Store as it is on the US site because there are fewer free books available and you can reach a higher sales rank with lower download numbers.

Are they selling well or is their sales rank in the millions.

If you can maintain that modest level of sale, your sales rank will stay more or less level.

Conversely, if you don't get a lot of nominations, sure you aren't giving away some free copies (I would bet the normal KS giveaway count is more like 250 - 300 at most) but you also aren't building these correlations and triggering a sales rank.

Last month, I only sold 84 books in the Kindle store and my sales rank hovered at best around 16,000.

The overall sales rank are based on 24 - hour sales, computed daily, and — in some cases — hourly.

The number you're calculating based on sales rank is how many it takes to stay there.

The lower the sales rank, the harder it is for you to get into the Top100, because your book needs to compete with all these bestsellers.

That advantage that Coker mentioned has been in place since Smashwords launched its pre-order feature, but until now it wasn't understood that all three of those major retailers could incorporate the pre-orders as sales rank on the day of the book's release.

Here are some basic concepts to help you understand more about what a book's sales rank really means.

They might get an email warning from Amazon that this has happened because they are suspected of «rank manipulation» — which can mean, driving a lot of sales in a short period of time in order to get a higher sales rank and sell more books.

Probably the only benefit that you might get from purchased reviews is the sales rank increase — in the cases where the reviewers actually purchase the ebooks.

A good sales rank (less than 1 million at least).

In the news, we talked about sales rank metrics, the new pulp movement for indies, an individual author subscription idea, BookBub's new Author Follows feature, the controversy behind the book Girl Online, and Hachette's direct selling efforts on Twitter.

These are the calculations of sales rank information displayed on the book's details page that show lowest, highest, averages, and standard deviation for that book's sales rank.

It's the little things... There is now a widget for pulling in your current Amazon.com Sales Rank from NovelRank.

According to Amazon, one of my books had a sales rank on Dec. 20 of 386,000, falling to 124k the next day.

Hello Dear, I am an author who is currently working on a book and I wonder if you offer a service where you buy 500 -100 copies of a book to increase the sales rank of an author?

If you've ever wondered how Amazon calculates sales rank — and how you can use their algorithms to your advantage, check out this post:

However, based on user feedback, you can now get sales rank, book sales worldwide for the current month and for the entire year by hovering your mouse over any book in your list:

When you moved it to free, Amazon puts it into a different «sales rank» bucket.

This allows the viewers of your book blog (that you of course have to promote your book) to quickly track your sales rank and see how your book is performing!

For instance, this pre-order only for dummies book has a sales rank of 4 + million!

The day has finally arrived and your book has a sales rank on Amazon.

This gets much more complicated the better the sales rank (lower number), and less complicated when you are above a sales rank of 1000.

You may also have a sales rank around 300, just like «The Game» by Neil Strauss.

When you are in the top 200, 300, 400, etc. your book's sales rank should drop about 14 % if you didn't sell a book.

So we went ahead and developed an automated sales rank reporting tool which sends you an email only when your book's sales rank improves.

Daily Alerts: These emails arrive once a day and give you information about how your book's sales rank has moved over the last 24 hours (records only positive changes... i.e. improvements in your sales rank.

My sales rank is # 294 right now, but I'm showing no sales at all for the past two days.

Brad Stone, the Business Week journalist who wrote The Everything Store (# 885 sales rank on Amazon today) about Amazon and Jeff Bezos, gave one of the keynote addresses.