gridlore: Doug looking off camera with a grin (Eat Rads)
Douglas Berry ([personal profile] gridlore) wrote2007-01-21 09:51 am
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HUH?

A few days ago I posted Ground Forces' sales ranking on amazon.com. At that point it was 972,661 in books. An anonymous commenter suggested using Charteous to track my sales. Sounds cool, so I signed up and entered GF's ASIN.

Today, I go out to the sight and my jaw hits the desk. There, on the front page, Ground Forces is listed as one of the top gainers. I'm now at 165,870! The Amazon pages suddenly says that they only have two copies in stock.

WTF! We're having a military-realted discussion on the TML right now, which might have spurred a sale or two, but I doubt that would account for me improving my sales ranking by 84% overnight.

Not to disappoint you...

[identity profile] dalen-talas.livejournal.com 2007-01-21 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
...but knowing Amazon, they may have had not that many copies of it in stock originally. And, with the sales rank in 900,000's, a five to eight sales per week would have improved it to 100,000's. Still, that's a great improvement.