The first is a regional
sales ranking chart for Japan, the U.S. / Canada, Europe and Australia.
Others stores try to keep indies in their own ghetto or simply prevent them from ever crossing certain lines on
the sales rank charts.
Over the past few weeks, you may have noticed a change in S.R.E.'s
sales rank charts.
Not exact matches
It continues to climb
sales charts and
ranks high on the list of Nissan's best sellers thanks to its modest price point and comfortable ride.
The Tundra's 2012
sales of 101,621
ranked a distant fifth on the U.S.
charts, behind the Ford F - series, which led with 645,316 units, the Chevrolet Silverado (418,312), the Ram 1500 pickup (293,363) and the GMC Sierra (157,185).
The
Rankings screen shows how your books
rank in each store's
sales charts.
That makes the
charts (expecially the Salesrank) unreadable, as well as screws up with the home page (Account management), where the (useless) French
sales rank is shown.
Charts of the last week's
sales ranks, with visible peaks that let you make quick
sales estimates and spot trends.
I imagined I would do well, but I never in a million years imagined I would do what I did in
sales, the
charts, and
rankings.
While book a «s campaign has generated more
sales within the timeframe of this
chart, book b will continue to surpass book a in both
sales and
ranking long into the future.
My theory is that the increased visibility during the KDP Free Promotion leads to more KU users downloading the book during and after it, which has a direct effect on
sales rank, so for a good while after the Free Promo, you can expect your book to remain higher in the
charts and also sell more copies.
By
charting his daily
sales reports, he was able to roughly plot the correlation between his Amazon bestseller
ranking and his
sales.
One section of my book discusses the Amazon
Sales Rank in detail, and the information may be helpful when looking at the above
chart, so I'll include it below:
Below is a
chart of my book's Amazon
sales rank that day.
According to Oricon's latest
sales chart for the first half of 2014, Hajime Isayama's Attack on Titan manga sold 8,342,268 copies to
rank # 1 among comic series.
The second scenario is that you release your book; it takes an initial
sales spike to those same envied upper plateaus and then settles into the 8,000 to 20,000 overall (using Amazon's
charts for this example)
rankings.
Although the definition of a breakout novel is an economy of scale, to most it would be thousands of
sales and high
ranking on Amazon
charts.
You've done a truly brilliant job here, and I say that as an early student of
sales rank based data, who published a
sales rank equivalency
chart for paper books going back to the late 90's.
Please note that comics marked with an asterisk have had their reported quantities reduced due to retailer returnability, and thus may
rank lower on the
charts than their actual
sales would reflect.
The
sales ranking does plummet initially, as your free downloads aren't counted as
sales, but it catches up quickly enough — it's the boost in the popularity
charts that makes free promotions worthwhile, but you need to give away a whole ton to make any difference (10,000 or more, as a rule of thumb).
«With all the
sales,
rankings,
charts and fisking going on,» Rooney wrote, «I'm all Howeyed out for this week.»
The new
charts require Flash and offer an interactive time series view of
sales rank history.
See
charts of your
sales rank performance, compare your books to similar books, view the current
sales rank of items that were purchased by people that also bought your item, export
rankings, get a widget, stay current with RSS or email alerts.
For the first week of November 2011, I went through the process of migrating 400,000,000
sales rank records into a new database system, in an effort to improve the performance of NovelRank, especially when you requested large amounts of data (e.g.
charting).
Please note that comics marked with an asterisk (*) have had their reported quantities reduced due to retailer returnability, and thus may
rank lower on the
charts than their actual
sales would reflect.
Add to this that the
sales numbers are increasing exponentially with high
ranks and it gets clear how hard it is for a new title to climb into the
charts.
As you can see, the effect of the immediate bump of
sales kept the book at a respectable
ranking for a number of days — although not high enough to be listed on any
charts that might help attract notice.
So we look to
charts and tables published out there to tell us what Best Sellers
Rank means in terms of
sales.
In publishing lingo the huge
sales at the top of the
chart is the big head and the line heading down the
ranks is the long tail.
The 258
sales and # 29
rank in the
chart at the link above were for Apr. 28.
Rank - to -
sales estimates get pressure - checked daily by thousands of authors, including myself, as we watch our books move up and down the
charts each day.
The best free resource to track
sales rank for your print and ebooks on Amazon... NovelRank is the best free resource for authors to track the
sales rank of their print and ebooks on Amazon with
charting,
sales estimates, RSS feeds and more.
Unfortunately,
Sales Rank Express has no way to block these deposits by Amazon or Google while displaying their
charts.
Unfortunately, S.R.E.'s partner, NovelRank, does not at this time support historical tracking of audiobooks, so
Sales Rank Express can not offer the
charting available for other kinds of books.
It's also worth noting that Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks and Kobo allow preorder accumulations to
rank in the
sales charts just as if the book were already on
sale.
The imported
chart in this panel is specially produced for
Sales Rank Express by its partner service, NovelRank.
After signing up an individual book for tracking, you will see a
chart of up to a week's
sales ranks.
Note that NovelRank's frequency of
rank checking varies dynamically, so the last charted value may be several hours behind and differ significantly from the current rank as reported by Sales Rank Expr
rank checking varies dynamically, so the last
charted value may be several hours behind and differ significantly from the current
rank as reported by Sales Rank Expr
rank as reported by
Sales Rank Expr
Rank Express.
Note, though, that the
chart's latest value may lag behind current
sales rank, and that
sales rank itself lags behind customer purchase.
Thanks to my new partner, Mario Lurig of NovelRank, you now have the option of seeing a
chart of a book's
sales ranks for the entire past week.
For instance, you could check your «lifetime average»
ranking and compare that with this
chart on my blog for a rough estimate of Amazon
sales.
However, the Wii U version had better Week One
sales, despite
ranking lower in the
charts.
UKIE has announced that they will offer
sales ranking for Xbox Live and PlayStation Network games sometime after their PC download
charts go...
Over the coming weeks, Develop will be publishing extracts and highlight data from the book, which uses GfK
Chart - Track research on retail
sales to formulate a
ranking based on UK revenues.
Now, as if on cue,
rankings from the UK's All - Formats
sales chart place DJ Hero right down at number 20 — Football Manager 2010 came in at number 1 narrowly beating off the Wii Fit Plus which came in at number 2 — which, despite their prediction, must leave Activision bosses slightly disappointed.
:: F3DM: The Second, Smaller, Plug - in Hybrid by China's BYD:: BYD Wants F6DM Plug - in Hybrid for
Sale in Europe by 2010:: Plug - in Hybrid Cars:
Chart of CO2 Emissions
Ranked by Power Source:: Plug - in Hybrids Might not Need New Power Plants:: How's The Google Plug - In Hybrid Fleet Doing?
You can see a relatively stable
sales ranking pattern for Echo Show among the top selling electronics items on Amazon.com in this
chart from CamelCamelCamel.
Additionally, NintendoLand has also re-entered the
charts ranking 36th, but I believe we can assume however that this could be due to an increase in Wii U Deluxe Set
sales after the \» tri-release \» of Lego City Undercover, Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate, and Need For Speed: Most Wanted.
Just yesterday, we learned that it
ranked in a very flattering second place in the NPD
sales chart for the U.S. market in January.
9to5Google shows us this
chart from Canaccord Genuity featuring smartphone
sales rankings across major carriers since August.