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.
When a book releases, it's tempting to sit online all day and
watch the sales rank, hoping and praying.
NovelRank
watches SALES RANK fluctuations, and thus at very good rankings, it is very hard to determine a sale (it's a very big guess to say how many books must be sold in an hour to maintain say a rank of 100).
I'm
watching my sales ranking rise at the retailers, yet these sales aren't being reported to me.
Not exact matches
In December 2016, Realtor.com published a
ranking of the top markets to
watch in 2017, based on expected home
sales and price growth.
I'm tired of
watching my Amazon
sales rank rise and fall.
Launch your campaign and track what works and what doesn't through
watching your book
rankings and your through the register
sales
* It teaches you why your time is better spent in writing, spending quality time with your family, going to the gym or
watching a movie, than on those other 1000 things that are recommended for boosting the
sales rank of your books.
However, if your dream is to «break out» and be discovered by thousands (and thousands) of book buyers... or if you have flights of fancy in which you imagine yourself checking your book's Amazon
ranking each day,
watching the
sales figures rise into the the top 100, and higher... then... get out your manuscript, we've got some work to do.
I have 49 books currently for
sale on Amazon, and for the past 15 years I've
watched their
rankings rise and fall with the rapt fascination of a raccoon studying a morsel of food in a trap.
I've no illusions that I got to 1500ish in
ranks only because I rode on Hugh's coattails, (and I'll forever be grateful), but I've been
watching others really struggle with 10 to 20
sales a month on good work.
According to The Bookseller, Howey is
watching warily and closely monitoring his
sales rankings.
I
watch my Amazon
sales rank numbers like a obsessive stalker and believe me there are days I'm ready to stake Amazon LOL.
One of the reasons why I hit upon doing the NPR Books
Watch is because it's easy enough (if time consuming) to look up book stories on the NPR Books page and then check
sales rankings on Amazon.
Finally, although it can be a lot of fun
watching your ebook's
sales rank — if it's improving anyway — it is usually more productive for your writing career to spend less time
watching your
rank and more time working on your next book.
I've
watched a good bit of scoffing go on, most of it measured and respectful, particularly among industry pundits, in the first 36 hours or so since Howey's «bombshell,» the AuthorsEarnings.com site went live with its survey, its petition, and Howey's controversial report on new
sales estimates based on Amazon
rankings.
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.
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ranked # 1 in ticket
sales on December 26 - 27th - over 450 000 tickets sold (in 358 theatres)- generated 500 million Yen (roughly 3.7 million $ / 2.7 million # / 4.1 million $)- less than Star Wars: The Force Awakens - since December 19th, Yo - kai
Watch: Enma Daioh to Itsutsu no Monogatari da Nyan!
spin - off Rogue One were defeated by the Yo - kai
Watch films in the ticket
sales ranking in their opening