So, for example, an author can have two or more author names
with an author rank of 20,000 or better, and may still be selling 1,000 books per month.
You could look at bare book sales, but
with author rankings by genre, Amazon does that for you in a clearer way that doesn't allow you to fool yourself with short - term variables.
Not exact matches
The
authors also detail the trouble
with promotions, particularly within managerial
ranks.
Ridlington, along
with Michelle Surka of U.S. PIRG, the public - interest research group,
authored «Following the Money,» an annual report
ranking state transparency websites.
A product developer and manufacturer, she is a nationally recognized
author and trainer, a former sports coach (a family of Olympic trainers), a Natural Health Practitioner, infant & parenting counselor, community leader, volunteer, wife, and mother
with a record of excellence in forecasting product trends, implementing key strategies, launching initiatives that propel growth, establish
rank and generate increased revenue streams for products.
He is the bestselling
author of Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into a Sales Machine
with the $ 100 Million Best Practices of Salesforce.com, which has been referred to as «The Sales Bible of Silicon Valley» and has
ranked # 1 on Amazon's telemarketing list for the past two years.
If you search for the phrase «social media and SEO» you'll still be inundated
with quite a few «low authority» websites that have been written by
authors who know how to max out their search
rankings without necessarily gaining an organic following based on their expertise.
The
authors of the five books below — whose
ranks include a psychotherapist, a productivity researcher, and a social psychologist — draw on their unique expertise to come up
with some answers to these and other important questions.
And Chinese scientists
rank behind only their U.S. counterparts on number of publications, although they are heavily skewed toward the natural sciences compared
with a more even distribution by U.S.
authors across disciplines.
Seven on our top 50 list appear on either the 2014 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers list (*) or the Scholarometer's top 100
authors (+)
ranking, and each is noted
with a symbol.
Across 10 different areas of life, adolescents
with cerebral palsy only
ranked their quality of friend and peer relationships as on average lower than adolescents in the general population, challenging the widespread perception that adolescents
with disabilities have unhappy, unfulfilled lives», says lead
author Allan Colver, Professor of Community Child Health at Newcastle University in the UK.
Due to the paucity of women
with Ph.D. s in computer science — in 2011, just 20 % of computer science Ph.D. recipients were female — efforts by the top -
ranked departments to improve their gender ratios might come at the expense of institutions below them, explains lead
author Samuel Way of CU Boulder.
For a filmmaker's greatest work — or second greatest, seeing as we've set ourselves the impossible task of
ranking these films — it might be expected that said film stand as a complete auteurist statement, one undeniably marked
with the stamp of its
author.
While the study shows some reliability in measuring teachers who either overperform or underachieve dramatically, the
authors note that «the vast majority of teachers are in the middle of the scale,
with small differences in scores producing large changes in percentile
rankings.»
SB61 — Louisiana's Public School Choice bill,
authored by Sen. Ben Nevers (D - Bogaulsa), passed
with tremendous bipartisan support in both the House and the Senate, which will allow students attending a D or F - rated public school to transfer to the A, B or C -
ranked public school of their parents» choice, provided the school has room for the student.
There is a major problem
with the latest
ranking of proficiency targets and cut scores on state tests between 2009 and 20011 released this week by Education Next: That the study's
authors, the otherwise - astute Paul Peterson and Peter Kaplan, have attempted to link the proficiency targets to the implementation of Common Core reading and math standards.
New Jersey, for example, scored very well in the
authors» rating
with 2.1 % fewer students
ranked as proficient in state testing compared to the last NAEP.
Such naivete explains why the Obama Administration has continually promoted case studies of reform - minded school leaders working closely
with NEA and AFT locals, why Class Struggle
author Steve Brill floated the laughable idea of Weingarten becoming chancellor of New York City's traditional district three years ago, and why organizations such as Educators4Excellence and Teach Plus — which represent younger, reform - minded teachers who now make up the majority of NEA and AFT
rank - and - filers (and are staffed by teachers who are themselves centrist and progressive Democrats)-- work so hard to aim to lead reform from within union
ranks.
If you're looking for ways to increase your book /
author rank and generate reviews, This graph explains why $ 0.99 is the best price to reach new readers,
with $ 1.99 not far behind:
1/5/14: Today, Will Wilson, the host / interviewer emailed me that this show
with his interview of me, Sally Ember,
author of «The Spanners Series,» now has Indie Books» 2nd - highest listener
ranking,
with over 350 listeners since the 12/27 broadcast!
Jim Carrey is preparing to join the
ranks of self - published
authors with what he described as a «metaphysical» children's book about a wave.
Library Directwill allow libraries to bundle books in Smashwords» catalog and select the books based on sales
ranking; partnered
with the new Pricing Manager which allows
authors and publishers to set the prices that libraries will pay, even opting to make their titles free to libraries, the amount of ebook titles that libraries can offer to patrons will increase.
At the same time, sales of the first book in her «Cocker» series — which the
author claims to have trademarked before issues takedown notices to competing
authors who'd used the word «cocky» in their book titles — are still solidly in the 2000 + range,
with Top 50
rankings for two categories and Top 200
rankings in a third.
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A few of us got reviews, all got feedback on our blurbs and covers, but most saw only modest, if any, increase in sales,
with the exception of one
author who reported enough sales to boost her book well into the top 100
ranking area in several categories.
Sales are great, press releases, interviews, live radio guest appearances are exciting, climbing the
ranks and entering the Top 100 Best Selling
Authors in Science Fiction multiple times is exhilarating, but nothing beats the support from readers and friends, and fellow writers who share this thrill
with me.
B&N has had issues
with erotica, too, limiting an erotic book's ability to rise past a
rank of 126, as Wool
author Hugh Howey discussed on his blog recently.
Bill breaks down some crucial strategies in helping fiction
authors & non fiction
authors get their books to
rank amongst the bestsellers on Amazon
with the least amount of headaches.
«If you have never read any books by Paul Casselle, then you should know he
ranks up along
with the greatest
authors of this genre.
My editor and my formatter both contacted me this weekend about my
rankings and sales and stated they had never before seen a new Indie
author with their debut book break into the top 500 sales on Kindle.
As KDP and other platforms swell
with new
authors and readership continues to grow, it is becoming ever harder for
authors to lead in
rankings and stand out from the crowd.
This self - published book beats out all the hundreds of books in its category in Amazon sales
ranking including those published by the major traditional publishers and many written by celebrity
authors with a platform.
Helping
authors rank higher on internet searches is something we're asked to help them
with quite frequently.
Your PR will go to anywhere from 3 - 10 thousand different outlets all over the world,
with links to your
author website included in the release to boost your search engine
rankings.
He also said that in hindsight (and
with more royalty - statement sales input from what he described as «dozens» of
authors), it's possible to tell now that the
ranking - to - sales curve in the original doing of this data dance was even farther off than the 18 percent he reported in the last quarterly article.
For the latest on improving your book's
ranking, read How to Sell a Ton of Books
With BookBub: A Tale of Two
Authors.
I have yet to see what I will be paid for these (it comes from a designated monthly pool of money, and it's a trust issue for all of us KDP Select
authors with Amazon), but they counted toward my paid downloads / sales and helped me stay high in the
rankings.
17) You will get the following benefits
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author, increase in Author Rank, KU Borrows, the possibility of becoming a genre bests
author, increase in
Author Rank, KU Borrows, the possibility of becoming a genre bests
Author Rank, KU Borrows, the possibility of becoming a genre bestseller.
Robertson quite freely admits that he only looked at a very small sample for each genre compared to the total number of titles published, and unlike the
Author Earnings report
with its thousands of titles to base its report upon, the focus of this glimpse wasn't sales, but how publishing method affected
ranking.
But
with great ideas proposed like a
ranking system for self - published
authors to help ensure best practices and a streamlined device system that makes buying ebooks ridiculously easy, one of the better ideas was the focus on greater adoption of bundling of ebooks
with their print counterparts, proposed by BitLit's Peter Hudson.
But, admittedly, when an
author is experiencing the jubilance of publication combined
with facing the task of book marketing, such a subject as «wholesale bookstore» might
rank a little lower on their radar.
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.
If you're looking to join those
ranks (or tired of struggling
with your finances as an
author, it's time for a mental upgrade.
Blogs tend to generate a fairly dedicated following
with certain blogs sending some
authors right to the best seller
ranks.
All you have to do is enter a book title, a subject,
author or publisher and TitleZ within seconds comes up
with a comprehensive list of books from Amazon.com plus historical sales
ranking data.
«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.
Also, having an exact name domain name for your
author brand or book will also help
with Google search
rankings.
I'm also aware that Amazon has started to crack down on ANY kind of book launch that focuses on boosting sales
rank (which can be conflated
with «
rank manipulation»)-- which means using BookBub or even your own email list to sell copies is becoming dangerous for legit
authors (more on that here).
As both the president of a self - publishing company and an
author, I am in a fairly unique position of being able to see my own book sales, compare it
with my Amazon Sales
Rank, and then do the same for the 5,000 + other books that have been published through Outskirts Press.
Here's how
authors ranked specific items and the frequency
with which they said they were important: