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What About Your Book’s Amazon Sales Rank?

by Anne Wayman on July 9th, 2008

He’s done it again! Joe Wikert, creator of Joe Wikert’s Publishing 2020 Blog has a post called: Amazon Sales Rank and it’s truly helpful.

First it points to a great article called What You Need to Know about Amazon’s Sales Rank by Bill Stephens over at Beneath The Cover. Bill details how Amazon calculates rank then gives some guidelines about what those numbers actually mean.

Not content with just one source, Joe points to Amazon’s rather cryptic statement about their ranking plus a link to TitleZ currently free web based service that lets you compare ranking of many books and RankTracer which gives more detail for a fee.

Finally he points to yet another website, dog ear publishing and their recently updated article, Amazon Sales Rank, that, among other things actually predicts how many sales you can expect from various rankings.

Thanks Joe!

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