It includes some 54,000 fiction and nonfiction titles from virtually all of Amazon's various category and
subcategory bestseller lists.
Soon, it creeped up several Amazon
subcategory bestseller lists, adding to its visibility.
If you've hit
some subcategory bestseller list, use that fact in your marketing blurbs and product descriptions.
But then, to make it easier for your book to get onto
some subcategory bestseller lists, pick appropriate subgenres with the fewest competing titles.
In addition, if you can get your book to show up prominently on some Amazon
subcategory bestseller list, it will further boost its visibility to readers.
Not exact matches
To help readers find the books they like, Amazon provides a host of book categories and
subcategories, distinguished by genres and subgenres, each with its own
bestseller list.
My title did sit in that zone, but it was also pleasing to hit a
bestseller subcategory: Amazon
Bestsellers Rank: # 10 in Books > History > Essays, Journals, Letters & True Accounts > 16th - 18th Centuries I'm not planning to take early retirement on the royalties, however, as my academic royalties tend to be in the region of $ 100 annually!
Inside the Kobo store, book covers are prominent, and the store offers
bestseller lists, top picks and
subcategories for browsing.
The Android version has a row of icons at the bottom of the screen that quickly take you to a «Discover» section (with lists such as New York Time's Fiction
Bestsellers, Oprah's Book Club and 2010 Pulitzer Winners), a Browse section that lets you drill down through categories and
subcategories (e.g. Sci Fi & Fantasy - > Fantasy - > Historical and finally a list of titles), and finally a search box.
So it's not really a
bestseller, it's just selling better than the others listed in that
subcategory that hour.
Another is my title Y in the romance / contemporary
subcategory with a rank of 12,087, also having no
bestseller category appearance (where it would have to have a store rank of 415 or better to appear), but still selling 361 copies in the Amazon US store this month.
Erotica
bestseller lists include many
subcategories, just as Amazon's other genres do.