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Our books on Amazon
posted by Emma on November 28, 2007 05:37 PM
Currently, here is how our books are doing on Amazon. In summary: not bad, but please buy more of our books.
Monster Island is # 33 in Horror
Monster Planet is # 30 in Horror
Monster Nation is # 51 in Horror
Boxing Fitness is # 10 in Boxing and #10 in Fitness Training (//update - #4 and #6 respectively today!//)
Crafters Companion is # 52 in Printmaking (weird, but true)
Cooking With Booze is # 75 in Drinks and Beverages (//update - ooh, # 57 today!//)
Idle Thoughts is # 25 in 19th Century Literature and #8 in Jerome K Jerome (maybe thanks to the radio 4 mention that hesperus' new edition got - thanks to Sue for pointing that out)
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I'm no publisher, but those numbers look pretty darn good to me.
Posted by: KatharineC on November 28, 2007 07:50 PM
Show me the money, Kat!
Posted by: em on November 28, 2007 08:06 PM
What about the titles you haven't listed, Em? Does this mean you can't get figures for them or they're just too embarrassing compared with what look to me like very good figures for the ones you have shown?
Posted by: Sarah Bower on November 29, 2007 11:51 AM
These are the only titles that show a genre ranking. The rest just show the overall sales ranking number. So, Monster Island is at 6092 overall, and #33 in Horror. Needle in the Blood, to pick a title entirely at random, is currently at 92,000 and doesn't feature on a sub-genre chart.
(I'm only going on the data that amazon.co.uk puts up - I'm not basing this on any detailed sales charts from them.)
Posted by: Em on November 29, 2007 12:55 PM
thanks for the explanation, Em. I wasn't aware there were genre charts. amazon figures are very mysterious - I've observed that random title you picked goes up and down like a yoyo. I guess they update them very regularly to have that effect.
Monster Island doing very well - good stuff.
Posted by: Sarah Bower on November 29, 2007 04:36 PM
Sarah, I agree that Amazon numbers are mysterious. I figured since the books on Amazon number roughly a bazillion, doing anywhere in the top 100,000 means you're pretty OK. I wish there was some more context for the genre charts - how popular the genre is in the overall catalog, for instance.
Em, you were the one who turned my money away. :)
Posted by: KatharineC on November 29, 2007 06:10 PM
Just reminded me that I haven't categorised our latest books...my memory seems to be deteriorating quickly (hopefully any looks are surviving - no comment...). Thank you Mrs Barnes.
Posted by: Tom Chalmers on November 29, 2007 06:26 PM
I think an Amazon ranking shows how fast the book is selling, not the total number of books sold.
Posted by: sue hepworth on November 30, 2007 04:07 PM