Thursday
Sep092004
Amazon.com Sales Rank: 1,592,434 - JUNGLESCAN
Thursday, September 9, 2004 at 12:56PM
In my Net journeys (always traveling, always exploring), I came across some interesting info this morning on that whole Amazon.com Sales Rank thing on Amazon.com...
"As an added service for customers, authors, publishers, artists, labels, and studios, we show how items in our catalog are selling. This bestseller list is much like The New York Times Bestsellers List, except it lists millions of items! The lower the number, the higher the sales for that particular title.
The calculation is based on Amazon.com sales and is updated regularly. The top 10,000 best sellers are updated each hour to reflect sales in the preceding 24 hours. The next 100,000 are updated daily. The rest of the list is updated monthly, based on several different factors..." [Which is our sales rank never seems to move--maybe we'll make a big jump next month!]
I came across the link to this information in two degrees of separation, two new websites that I found fascinating (you'll probably see why when you visit!):
http://www.allconsuming.net
JungleScan.com is a free service that:
www.allconsuming.net I'm still trying to figure out, but it's all about books, and therefore excellent--I'll have more info soon!
What Sales Rank Means
"As an added service for customers, authors, publishers, artists, labels, and studios, we show how items in our catalog are selling. This bestseller list is much like The New York Times Bestsellers List, except it lists millions of items! The lower the number, the higher the sales for that particular title.
The calculation is based on Amazon.com sales and is updated regularly. The top 10,000 best sellers are updated each hour to reflect sales in the preceding 24 hours. The next 100,000 are updated daily. The rest of the list is updated monthly, based on several different factors..." [Which is our sales rank never seems to move--maybe we'll make a big jump next month!]
I came across the link to this information in two degrees of separation, two new websites that I found fascinating (you'll probably see why when you visit!):
http://www.allconsuming.net
http://www.junglescan.com
JungleScan.com is a free service that:
- Scans products on Amazon.com to record their sales ranking over time
- Allows you to start or participate in discussions about any website or Amazon.com item
www.allconsuming.net I'm still trying to figure out, but it's all about books, and therefore excellent--I'll have more info soon!