For a few hours yesterday, I had the great fun of watching Copper Star’s sales rankings on Amazon hover around the #5,000 mark. Obviously, people are buying it. How many? Well, that’s where it gets confusing.
No one has really cracked the mystery of the Amazon sales ranking.
Just to keep all of this book promotion/selling in perspective, I came across this information a while ago and tucked it away:
According to an article by Chris Anderson in the July 17, 2004 issue of Publishers Weekly…
950,000 titles out of 1.2 million tracked by Nielsen Bookscan sold fewer than 99 copies
Another 200,000 sold fewer than 1,000 copies
Only 25,000 sold more than 5,000 copies
The average book in America sells about 500 copies
Only 10 books sold more than a million copies
Fewer than 500 sold more than 100,000
Nearly 200,000 new titles are published each year
Wow! That was confusing. They need to reach “Amazon 101 in college”. I hope you are one of 1 million dollar sells!
XO ANN
AHHH. There’s that math thing again.
TX